{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"10379403","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/10379403","state":"Delaware","county":"","file_day":21,"file_month":1,"file_year":1794,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"House: read ; Senate: read","enslaved_count":5,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":6,"repository":"Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware","abstract":"In 1780, Maryland resident Sarah Frisby hired five of her slaves--Ben, Cuff, Stephen, Betty, and Kate--to Richard Lavin of Maryland; Frisby later moved to Delaware, where she currently resides.  The petitioner explains that the law passed in 1787 renders \"it unlawful to bring slaves into this State and [entitles] them in such case to their liberty.\"  Of the opinion that \"she would be able to render the condition of the said slaves more comfortable to them & more profitable to herself were she allowed to bring them into this State,\" she asks that she be exempted from said law.","subjects":[{"subject":"Manumission"}]}]}