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{"value"=>"<p>Legal document addressed to Judge Robert Mack, Tennessee, concerning the case of Eli Askew, who is seeking a divorce from his wife, Elizabeth Atkinson Askew, on the grounds that she had an affair with an enslaved man named Sam and gave birth to a \"child of color, begotten by a negro slave, a black man.\" Mrs. Askew admitted that she had relations with Sam. (Includes transcription.) Polk, the 11th president (1845-49), served as Askew's attorney.</p>"}
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1824
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