{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21286604","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21286604","state":"North Carolina","county":"Guilford","location_type":"County","file_day":18,"file_month":7,"file_year":1866,"filing_court":"Superior","end_day":0,"end_month":0,"end_year":0,"result":"","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":3,"total_people_count":4,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"About 1854, Mary and John Hubbard, who were born free, obtained a marriage license from the Alamance County clerk of court and were married by a justice of the peace.  After 1857, Mary testifies that John began to \"ill-treat, beat, whip and abuse her;\" he later became intimate with a woman named Emily, formerly the property of Tobias May and now a free woman.  Mary claims that her husband continues to be intimate with the said Emily and cohabits with her.  Mary asks for a divorce.","subjects":[{"subject":"Adultery"},{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Domestic violence"},{"subject":"Whipping"}]}]}