Sixty-nine-year-old James Bostian seeks a divorce from his wife Mary who "became the mother of a mulatto or negro child," and admitted that she had an affair with a black man. She has "a general bad character for virtue," the husband charges, "it being generally reported that she is unchaste as well with white men as negroes."
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
