{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21183612","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21183612","state":"Missouri","county":"St. Louis","location_type":"County","file_day":6,"file_month":7,"file_year":1836,"filing_court":"Circuit","end_day":6,"end_month":7,"end_year":1836,"ending_court":"Circuit","result":"petition granted; plea of trespass filed, denied, and appealed","enslaved_count":5,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":9,"repository":"Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri","abstract":"Delph, a woman of color, represents that her owner, Josiah Ramsay Sr. of Callaway County, manumitted her in 1826.  Since 1827, Delph maintains that she has \"in fact gone at large, & acted as a free person ever since.\"  Charging that Stephen Dorris now claims her as a slave and has attempted to forcibly remove her from St. Louis, the petitioner \"prays for leave to sue in the St Louis Circuit Court as a poor person, in order to establish her said right to Freedom.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Sues for freedom (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchase of freedom"},{"subject":"Virtually free (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale (enslaved family)"},{"subject":"Westward migration"},{"subject":"Jails\/Workhouses"},{"subject":"Assault"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Gambling"}]}]}