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Amrita Chakrabarti Myers

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  • A black and white drawing of Julia Ann Chinn.

    Tenuous Privileges, Tenuous Power

    Amrita Myers paints freedom as a process in which Black women used the tools available to them to secure rights and privileges within a slave society.
    by Keisha N. Blain, Amrita Chakrabarti Myers via Public Books on March 19, 2024
  • Framed portrait of Julia Chinn.

    The Erasure and Resurrection of Julia Chinn

    Why the nation's ninth vice-president – and his black wife – were purposely forgotten.
    by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers via Association of Black Women Historians on March 3, 2019
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The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
2023
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