1779-005: Agness Hannah, for etc. vs. Robert Hannah.

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Divorce/Separate Maintenance. Agness Hannah charges her husband with treating her in an "unjust barbarous and cruel" manner, abusing her verbally and physically, threatening to kill her, and carrying on a "criminal correspondence with his own negro woman slave." Since she left the home, she alleges, she hasn't had access to any of the estate set aside for her by the terms of a marriage contract, and she has been forced to rely on the charity of acquaintances. Depositions describe sexual assault against an enslaved woman and assault with a gun and hammer against Agness Hannah.

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