{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11482109","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11482109","state":"Tennessee","county":"","file_day":8,"file_month":9,"file_year":1821,"filing_court":"Petition","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":1,"repository":"Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee","abstract":"Confessing that her husband David's \"treatment became so intolarable that I Could not Stay with him any longer,\" Mary Logue seeks a divorce.  She discloses that \"he not only abused my person very frequently by pulling my hair and Draging me about the house by it but [threatened] to take my Life and would go to bed with Negro women.\"   Mary, believing it not safe to stay with him, abandoned \"his house and went to my Fathers whare I have Resided Ever Since and Since I have left my husbond ... still Continued in his wickedness as bad as ever.\"  The petitioner therefore prays that she be granted a divorce.","subjects":[{"subject":"Adultery"},{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Domestic violence"},{"subject":"Assault"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"},{"subject":"Abandonment "}]}]}