Charging her husband with having sexual encounters with both female slaves and white women, Caroline E. Wallace claims that he is abusive, violent, and has threatened her life. On one occasion, she recounts, her husband "ordered one John Miller to bring a light and hold it while in his presence" he "violated her person." He is a prosperous man, she adds, owning about fifteen hundred acres of land worth at least fifteen thousand dollars, and approximately twenty slaves. She asks for a divorce and financial support.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
