{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21286603","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21286603","state":"North Carolina","county":"Rowan","location_type":"County","file_day":20,"file_month":4,"file_year":1866,"filing_court":"Superior","end_year":1866,"ending_court":"Superior","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"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.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Adultery"},{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Civil War, impact of"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"},{"subject":"Sex workers\/Promiscuity "},{"subject":"Illegitimacy "}]}]}