{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21286609","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21286609","state":"North Carolina","county":"Buncombe","location_type":"County","file_year":1866,"filing_court":"Superior","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":4,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Mary L. Lytle petitions for divorce charging her husband with adultery, abusive behavior, and that he is \"much inclined toward drunkenness.\"  Moreover, he threatened to kill her, keeping a knife under his pillow and promising to \"cut her throat.\"  \"This treatment,\" she asserts, \"was habitual & as well when Sober as when he was drunk.\"  She also accuses him of having had illicit intercourse with a \"negro\" or \"mulatto\" woman owned by his father.  She claims that she \"has good reason to believe that the same intercourse is kept up to this day.\"  She seeks a divorce.","subjects":[{"subject":"Adultery"},{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Domestic violence"},{"subject":"Drunkenness"},{"subject":"Assault"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"},{"subject":"Sex workers\/Promiscuity "}]}]}