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...

Chinn is a surname, originating both in England and among overseas Chinese communities. As an English surname, the name Chinn comes from when a family...

prominence, Johnson was criticized for his interracial relationship with Julia Chinn, a mixed-race slave who was classified as octoroon (or seven-eighths...

Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings, resulting in six children. Julia Chinn, an enslaved octoroon who was the common-law wife of the ninth vice president...

Spouse Notes Adaline Chinn Johnson c. 1812 – c. 1836 Thomas W. Scott Both children born to Johnson's slave and common-law wife Julia Chinn were acknowledged...

Chakrabarti (2023). The vice president's Black wife: the untold life of Julia Chinn. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. pp. 133, 152, 241...

namesake of Johnson County. Johnson's only marriage was to Julia Chinn, a common-law spouse. Julia Chinn, was an octoroon slave (one-eighth African, seven-eighths...

child of then-vice presidential candidate Richard Mentor Johnson and Julia Chinn. The next day, Johnson's nephew arrived, in pursuit of the women, saying...

Moore has written 533 biographies of women, including Sharbat Gula, Julia Chinn, Jeanne Gapiya-Niyonzima, Ólafía Einarsdóttir and Gloria Meneses. Moore...

Southern and Northern societies. Julia Chinn, common-law wife of vice president Richard Mentor Johnson Wilson Chinn Sally Hemings, whose children are...