About Amrita Chakrabarti Myers Amrita Chakrabarti Myers is the Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor of History and gender studies at Indiana University Bloomington. She is the author of Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston. Books by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers The Vice President's Black Wife The Untold Life of Julia Chinn by (author) Amrita Chakrabarti Myers