{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"10382209","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/10382209","state":"Delaware","county":"New Castle","location_type":"County","file_day":19,"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":"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 induced to take\" said slave \"in the payment of a debt (not otherwise to be obtained).\"  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 into this State & hold him as a Servant untill he arive at the age of Thirty years.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Skills (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Term slavery"}]}]}