21282803https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21282803North CarolinaCravenCounty13111828Superior104North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North CarolinaGraham 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."AdulteryDivorceInterracial relationshipsAbandonment Sex workers/Promiscuity