<petition><petition_analysis_number>21200001</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21200001</petition_url><state>North Carolina</state><county>Nash</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_year>9999</file_year><filing_court>Equity</filing_court><end_day>0</end_day><end_month>0</end_month><end_year>0</end_year><ending_court>Equity</ending_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>0</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>2</total_people_count><repository>North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina</repository><abstract>Thomas Flowers seeks a divorce from his wife Temperance, who "has taken up and cohabitted with people of colour, by whom she has had a child of colour &amp; mixed blood, and with whom she has long associated."</abstract><subjects><subject>Adultery</subject><subject>Divorce</subject><subject>Interracial socializing </subject><subject>Illegitimacy </subject></subjects></petition>