{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21284313","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21284313","state":"North Carolina","county":"Stokes","location_type":"County","file_day":20,"file_month":3,"file_year":1843,"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":"After twenty-two years of marriage, Henry Shouse accuses his wife of having sex with one of his slaves, and giving birth to a child \"of negro blood.\"  He asks for a divorce.","subjects":[{"subject":"Adultery"},{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"},{"subject":"Abandonment "}]}]}