{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"10382204","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/10382204","state":"Delaware","county":"New Castle","location_type":"County","file_day":28,"file_month":1,"file_year":1822,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"House: read, referred","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware","abstract":"Joseph Chamberlain, \"the owner of a certain negro girl, named Amelia, about six years old, who is now in Cecil county in the state of Maryland,\" is \"desirous of bringing her into this state, as a house servant, & not for sale.\"  He therefore prays that an act may be passed \"authorising him to bring the said negro Amelia into this state, & to hold her as a slave.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Skills (enslaved)"}]}]}