<petition><petition_analysis_number>21284516</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21284516</petition_url><state>North Carolina</state><county>Pitt</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>6</file_day><file_month>11</file_month><file_year>1845</file_year><filing_court>Equity</filing_court><enslaved_count>2</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>4</total_people_count><repository>North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina</repository><abstract>Married for thirteen years, Margaret Moore asks for a divorce on the grounds of adultery.  Moreover, she seeks to prevent her husband from taking the slaves she recently inherited from her father.</abstract><subjects><subject>Adultery</subject><subject>Divorce</subject><subject>Alimony</subject><subject>Domestic violence</subject><subject>Sex workers/Promiscuity </subject></subjects></petition>