21285717https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21285717North CarolinaGuilfordCounty1857Superior002North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North CarolinaWilliam 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.DivorceInterracial relationshipsAbandonment Illegitimacy