North Carolina, Supreme Court, Raleigh : Barden v Barden, December 1832.

The plaintiff petitioned for a divorce on the grounds that before his marriage his wife had had a child whom she represented as his, but that after the marriage he discovered the child was mixed-race. The judge dismissed the petition and the plaintiff appealed to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court...

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Corporate Author:	Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) (digitiser.)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Series:	Slavery, abolition & social justice.
Subjects:	Black people > Race identity Court records Interracial dating Marriage Racially mixed people North Carolina > Wayne County
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