{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"10382104","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/10382104","state":"Delaware","county":"New Castle","location_type":"County","file_day":23,"file_month":1,"file_year":1821,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"House: read, referred to committee","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware","abstract":"John Thompson reveals that he owns a fourteen-year-old slave named Cyrus, \"who is now in the State of Maryland.\"  He further reports that \"he was compeled to take\" said slave \"in the payment of a debt he could not otherwise obtain.\"  Being \"desirous to bring said Boy into this state as a House servant,\" Thompson \"craves of your Honourable Body to pass a Law, authorising him to bring the aforesaid Negro Cyrus into this State and hold him as a Slave.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Skills (enslaved)"}]}]}