{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21685720","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21685720","state":"Virginia","county":"Petersburg","location_type":"City","file_date_circa":"y","file_day":0,"file_month":4,"file_year":1857,"filing_court":"Circuit","end_date_circa":"y","end_day":0,"end_month":5,"end_year":1857,"ending_court":"Circuit","result":"granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":6,"total_people_count":7,"repository":"Circuit Court Clerk's Office, Petersburg, Virginia","abstract":"Eliza Parham, a free woman of color, seeks a divorce from her husband, George Parham, a free man of color.  The petitioner charges that her husband \"deserted & abandoned her & her children & left the state of Virginia.\"  Attesting that she was \"a good & virtuous wife ... & never gave him any cause of offense whatever,\" she confesses that \"he was frequently cruel & unkind to her.\"  She therefore prays \"that your Honor will annul the marriage between him & herself & divorce her from his bed & board & will give her the care custody & maintenance of her said children.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Seniors (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Alimony"},{"subject":"Domestic violence"},{"subject":"Occupation (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Testimony (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Churches"},{"subject":"Assault"},{"subject":"Abandonment "}]}]}