{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21283109","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21283109","state":"North Carolina","county":"Granville","location_type":"County","file_day":20,"file_month":3,"file_year":1831,"filing_court":"Superior","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"In 1823, after six years of marriage, Charles Mitchell discovered that his wife Susan was \"engaged in a shameful and adulterous intercourse with one Jo Proctor a freeman of color.\"  Mitchell left his wife, and moved to Milton, North Carolina.  Later, he learned that she and Proctor began a journey to Georgia, but for some reason abandoned their plans.  She then followed him to Milton, took up residence \"in the suburbs,\" and, for two years, \"engaged in a course of shameless prostitution.\"  He seeks a divorce.","subjects":[{"subject":"Adultery"},{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"},{"subject":"Abandonment "},{"subject":"Sex workers\/Promiscuity "}]}]}