{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21284403","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21284403","state":"North Carolina","county":"Robeson","location_type":"County","file_day":0,"file_month":0,"file_year":1844,"filing_court":"Superior","end_day":0,"end_month":0,"end_year":0,"result":"","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Edward Karsey, a free person of color, seeks a divorce from his wife on the grounds that she is not a person of mixed racial origin as he believed when they were married but is a white woman.  After he confronted her with this charge, she \"abandoned herself to the most lewd and vicious course,\" indulging \"in criminal conversation\" with a number of men.","subjects":[{"subject":"Interracial relationships"},{"subject":"Abandonment "},{"subject":"Sex workers\/Promiscuity "}]}]}