{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21285717","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21285717","state":"North Carolina","county":"Guilford","location_type":"County","file_year":1857,"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":"William Hanner seeks a divorce charging that less than six months after their marriage his wife Charlotte \"was delivered of a child which to his great mortification & astonishment was a black one.\"  A short time later, Charlotte took the baby and left, and he has not seen her since.","subjects":[{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"},{"subject":"Abandonment "},{"subject":"Illegitimacy "}]}]}