<petition><petition_analysis_number>21285814</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21285814</petition_url><state>North Carolina</state><county>Randolph</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>8</file_day><file_month>3</file_month><file_year>1858</file_year><filing_court>Superior</filing_court><enslaved_count>1</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>Rhodias Riley seeks a divorce, charging that his wife left him six years before and that "she has kept up a promiscuous adulterous intercourse with divers other men particularly with Dave, a negro slave."</abstract><subjects><subject>Adultery</subject><subject>Divorce</subject><subject>Interracial relationships</subject><subject>Abandonment </subject></subjects></petition>