Caroline Stevens seeks a divorce from her husband Nathaniel, who, she says, "voluntarily left her and her children and took up with a certain negro woman." Although he owns property and makes a good income as one of the best river pilots in Mobile, Caroline claims that her husband spends his income on "himself and his colored concubine." She asks the court to require him to provide "for the support of herself and children" who "are in danger of being subjected to shame degradation & absolute want" and to prevent him from otherwise disposing of his property. Related testimony reveals that Nathaniel Stevens lived in the same house as one Mary Malone, a woman of "mixed" color. Stevens reportedly paid rent for the house. Mary Malone lived which her mother and a nine-year-old boy.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: University of South Alabama Archives, Mobile, Alabama
