{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20684007","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20684007","state":"Georgia","county":"Richmond","location_type":"County","file_date_circa":"y","file_year":1840,"filing_court":"Inferior","end_date_circa":"y","end_year":1840,"ending_court":"Inferior","result":"partially granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":5,"repository":"Richmond County Records Retention Center, Augusta, Georgia","abstract":"David Wolfe states that he purchased a slave, Sely, twenty-three years of age, for $625 from Joseph Woods and Charles Hatcher, slave traders.  Wolfe states that the slave was afflicted with a venereal disease or the \"bad disorder\" and died five months after the sale.  Wolfe asserts that during her illness, he incurred medical expenses amounting to $1,000 for the care of the slave.  He charges the defendants with fraud and seeks $1,000 in damages.","subjects":[{"subject":"Death of enslaved (disease)"},{"subject":"Diseases (physical)"},{"subject":"Warranty (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Slave trade (domestic)"}]}]}