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. == Early life == Chinn was born in Scott County, Kentucky, to a woman enslaved by the Johnson family.
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. == Early life == Chinn was born in Scott County, Kentucky, to a woman enslaved by the Johnson family.
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