The Vice President Married A Slave?

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History, Comedy, Improv

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🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

With J.D. Vance winning the Vice Presidency you'll probably hear about his wife Usha Vance being the first non-white Second Lady. This is true, but she is NOT the first non-white woman to be married to a Vice President. This is the story of Vice President Richard Johnson -- a legendary hero of the War of 1812 and the ninth Vice President of the United States -- and his wife, a slave named Julia Chinn.

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1:38.9	Today on softcore history, we are talking about a woman who made history, although she might not have been so wild about the way she made the history. In the coming months,
1:42.7	you're going to hear a lot about how J.D. Vance's wife is probably the first woman of color to be the second lady. However,
1:49.5	there was a vice president before J.D. Vance, who was married to a non-white woman.
1:56.1	Unfortunately, that story is a little bit bleaker, and we are here to talk about it today.
2:01.8	The ninth vice president of the United States, Richard Johnson and his wife, Julia Chin.
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