21286603https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21286603North CarolinaRowanCounty2041866Superior1866Superior002North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North CarolinaSixty-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."AdulteryDivorceCivil War, impact ofInterracial relationshipsSex workers/Promiscuity Illegitimacy