{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20785014","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20785014","state":"Kentucky","county":"Bourbon","location_type":"County","file_day":25,"file_month":7,"file_year":1850,"filing_court":"Circuit","end_day":17,"end_month":12,"end_year":1850,"ending_court":"Circuit","result":"granted","enslaved_count":16,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":18,"repository":"Bourbon County Courthouse, Paris, Kentucky","abstract":"When Mary C. Adams married Absolom Adams in Tennessee about 1835, she was \"possessed in her own right of a property in personalty slaves & land, of the value of $12000.\"  She charges her husband with physical and mental abuse during their marriage and with marrying her \"for improper & unworthy objects and with the deliberate purpose of fraudulently getting the possession & ownership of all her property.\"  She asks for a divorce, a court-ordered allowance from her husband while the case is pending, and the restoration of her wealth.","subjects":[{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Alimony"},{"subject":"Domestic violence"},{"subject":"Westward migration"},{"subject":"Diseases (physical)"},{"subject":"Medical treatment"},{"subject":"Assessed Value (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Property owners (women)"},{"subject":"Family separated (Black)"},{"subject":"Family kept together (Black)"}]}]}