Elizabeth Humphreville asks for a divorce from Joseph D. Humphreville, who, she asserts, has never contributed to her support and "has been nearly all the time since their intermarriage a great burthen." For the past five years, he has treated her in a "most cruel barbarous and inhuman" manner. By her own industry, she acquired two slave women, Polly and Ann, worth about four hundred dollars each. Now her husband has abandoned her to live with one of her slaves.
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