{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20186221","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20186221","state":"Alabama","county":"Mobile","location_type":"County","file_day":5,"file_month":7,"file_year":1862,"filing_court":"Chancery","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"University of South Alabama Archives, Mobile, Alabama","abstract":"Referring to her June divorce petition, Elizabeth Ribet asks for financial support during the litigation; \"she is poor, destitute of means, and wholly unable to support herself.\"  Moreover, her husband has filed a divorce counter-suit, charging her with adultery.  A related petition reveals that Elizabeth, the owner of two slaves, was a dressmaker; her husband was a merchant tailor.","subjects":[{"subject":"Adultery"},{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Alimony"},{"subject":"Domestic violence"},{"subject":"Abandonment "}]}]}