{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21283612","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21283612","state":"North Carolina","county":"Guilford","location_type":"County","file_day":28,"file_month":8,"file_year":1836,"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 twenty nine years, Nancy Anne Jenkins seeks a divorce and alimony on the grounds of adultery, drunkenness, physical abuse, and abandonment.  Nancy claims that her husband, Henry Jenkins, is a man of vicious habits who treated her as if she were his slave.  In fact, Henry had sold two slaves--a black woman and a black girl--who waited on him and afterwards made \"unreasonable & exorbitant\" demands for his wife's services.","subjects":[{"subject":"Adultery"},{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Alimony"},{"subject":"Domestic violence"},{"subject":"Drunkenness"},{"subject":"Sex workers\/Promiscuity "}]}]}