{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21686604","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21686604","state":"Virginia","county":"Albemarle","location_type":"County","file_date_circa":"y","file_day":0,"file_month":0,"file_year":1866,"filing_court":"Circuit","end_day":16,"end_month":10,"end_year":1866,"ending_court":"Circuit","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":3,"total_people_count":7,"repository":"Virginia State Library","abstract":"Jack Robinson, a freedman, states that in 1863 or 1864, while he was a slave of George M. Lofland, he \"took up with\" a slave named Amanda Johnson, who at the time belonged to Emily Wood.  Robinson and Johnson \"had a sort of wedding after the fashion of negroes, & went through the forms of marriage.\"  Around March 1866, Robinson heard that Emily had committed adultery with a freedman named Beverly Monroe.  Robinson asks for a declaration \"that he and Amanda have never been and are not now married.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Adultery"},{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Testimony (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Skills (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Abandonment "}]}]}