Julia Chinn
Julia Chinn | |
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Excerpt of portrait purportedly caricaturing Chinn, depicting her as African | |
| Born | c. 1790s Scott County, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Died | July 1833 (aged 35–43) near Georgetown, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Plantation manager; wife |
| Spouse | Richard Mentor Johnson |
| Children | 2 |
Julia Chinn (c. 1790 – July 1833) was an American plantation manager and enslaved woman of "mixed-race" (an "octoroon" of seven-eighths European and one-eighth African ancestry), who was the common-law wife of the ninth vice president of the United States, Richard Mentor Johnson.