<petition><petition_analysis_number>20680004</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20680004</petition_url><state>Georgia</state><county>Richmond</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_date_circa>y</file_date_circa><file_year>1800</file_year><filing_court>Inferior</filing_court><end_day>20</end_day><end_month>5</end_month><end_year>1803</end_year><ending_court>Inferior</ending_court><result>partially granted; appealed; affirmed</result><enslaved_count>0</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>2</total_people_count><repository>Richmond County Courthouse, Augusta, Georgia</repository><abstract>Molsey Jones accuses John D'Antignac of damaging her reputation, by accusing her of "keeping a bawdy house, or house of ill fame."  Jones interprets his words as meaning "that your petitioner was not only a whore but kept a house to bring whores a Negroes together."  She asks that D'Antignac be summoned to answer charges of trespass and defamation, and to pay $5,000 for damages to her reputation.</abstract><subjects><subject>Slander</subject><subject>Interracial relationships</subject><subject>Sex workers/Promiscuity </subject></subjects></petition>