{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21282803","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21282803","state":"North Carolina","county":"Craven","location_type":"County","file_day":13,"file_month":11,"file_year":1828,"filing_court":"Superior","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":4,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Graham Bishop asks for a divorce from his wife Zilphia Stokes Bishop, who, he charges, was guilty of \"a species of prostitution\" before their marriage, and intimate with a slave named Brister afterwards.  Currently, he says, she is living in open adultery with another man in New Bern, professing \"to be his true and lawful wife.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Adultery"},{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"},{"subject":"Abandonment "},{"subject":"Sex workers\/Promiscuity "}]}]}