{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20379701","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20379701","state":"Delaware","county":"New Castle","location_type":"County","file_day":23,"file_month":5,"file_year":1797,"filing_court":"County","end_day":23,"end_month":5,"end_year":1797,"ending_court":"County","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware","abstract":"John Stilley Jr. asserts that his slave Philip is \"Turbulent and Unruly.\"  Stilley recounts how Philip ran away on several occasions, jumped on him \"with great rage and Knocked [him] down with his fist,\" and threatened to shoot him with his rifle.  With Phillip confined to jail, Stilley asks to sell him out of the state.","subjects":[{"subject":"Jails\/Workhouses"},{"subject":"Freedom seekers"},{"subject":"Assault"},{"subject":"Insubordination"},{"subject":"Management (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Whipping"}]}]}