<petition><petition_analysis_number>11000010</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11000010</petition_url><state>Mississippi</state><county></county><filing_court>unknown</filing_court><enslaved_count>1</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>2</total_people_count><repository>Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi</repository><abstract>Samuel Osborne asks for emancipation of an infant "whom he verily believes to be the issue of white parents" and by fraud has been brought into state and sold as a slave.  He states that he recently purchased the child and wants to raise her as his own, educate her, and change her name from Margaret to Indiana Osborne.</abstract><subjects><subject>owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave</subject><subject>Education and literacy (enslaved)</subject></subjects></petition>