{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21283408","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21283408","state":"North Carolina","county":"Wayne","location_type":"County","file_day":2,"file_month":10,"file_year":1834,"filing_court":"Superior","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Married about twenty-five years, Richard Jernigan seeks a divorce on the grounds that his wife \"began to display evidence of a violent & outrageous temper,\" was addicted to \"spirituous liquors,\" and was guilty of \"libidinous intercourse with both black & white men.\"  Indeed, he contracted a venereal disease from his wife.","subjects":[{"subject":"Adultery"},{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Domestic violence"},{"subject":"Diseases (physical)"},{"subject":"Drunkenness"},{"subject":"Medical treatment"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"},{"subject":"Abandonment "},{"subject":"Sex workers\/Promiscuity "}]}]}