{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20378901","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20378901","state":"Delaware","county":"New Castle","location_type":"County","file_day":23,"file_month":12,"file_year":1789,"filing_court":"County","end_day":28,"end_month":12,"end_year":1789,"ending_court":"County","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware","abstract":"James Black seeks permission to sell his slave Ben out of the state.  Ben is \"very ungovernable,\" Black explains; he was found stealing flour \"out of the mill of your Petitioner\" on several occasions, and he threatened to kill the hired miller \"for making the Discovery on him.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Homicide"},{"subject":"Theft by enslaved"},{"subject":"Management (enslaved)"}]}]}