{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11000013","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11000013","state":"Mississippi","county":"Claiborne","location_type":"County","filing_court":"unknown","result":"granted","enslaved_count":4,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":15,"repository":"Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi","abstract":"The petitioners ask for the emancipation of Samuel Martin's family.  Three years before Martin, a free man of color, purchased his wife and three children.  A related petition reveals that Samuel Martin had been freed a number of years earlier by his owner, J. W. Thomson.","subjects":[{"subject":"Purchased own family (FPOC)"},{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Enslaver (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Frees own family (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Family separated (Black)"},{"subject":"Family kept together (Black)"}]}]}