11684814https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11684814VirginiaHenryCounty20121848Legislativereferred to Committee for Courts of Justice103Library of Virginia, Richmond, VirginiaLucy W. Norman seeks a divorce from her husband, James B. Norman. Lucy Norman informs the court that she and James Norman were married in 1844, by which marriage James became the "undisputed owner of a large estate of lands and negroes." After a year of reasonable marital harmony, Lucy explains, her husband became prodigal, dissipated in his habits, and violent. He exhibited indifference toward her, she further adds, and brought a female servant to sleep in the conjugal bedroom, finally abandoning his wife entirely to live with "said woman of color."DivorceDomestic violenceInterracial relationshipsAbandonment