{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11483328","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11483328","state":"Tennessee","county":"Franklin","location_type":"County","file_day":21,"file_month":10,"file_year":1833,"filing_court":"Petition","enslaved_count":3,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":6,"repository":"Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee","abstract":"Susan Doolin seeks a divorce from her husband, Thomas Doolin.  Susan confides that her said husband \"has been guilty of Acts & deeds [inconsistent] with the marriage Vow\" and that he \"has been guilty of Adultry With indecent & lewd women.\"  She further submits that \"his own relations to me [stated] that he had in a carnal way kept & made use of a Negro girl that belongd to me,--the Negro says the same.\"  Stating that \"he left some time in the month of April last & told me that he never intended to live with me again,\" the petitioner prays \"that your honourable body would pass a law divorcing her from her said husband.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Adultery"},{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Westward migration"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"},{"subject":"Abandonment "}]}]}