{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21285609","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21285609","state":"North Carolina","county":"Yadkin","location_type":"County","file_day":8,"file_month":4,"file_year":1856,"filing_court":"Superior","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":5,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Less than a year after he married in 1851, Kennedy M. Williams discovered that his wife Mary Eliza was sleeping with other men, including planter Samuel Speer and one of Speer's slaves, a man named Hand.  Now, however, Williams has been declared non compos mentis and his guardian seeks a divorce in his behalf.","subjects":[{"subject":"Adultery"},{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Diseases (mental)"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"},{"subject":"Sex workers\/Promiscuity "},{"subject":"Illegitimacy "}]}]}