{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11000014","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11000014","state":"Mississippi","county":"Unknown","location_type":"County","file_day":0,"file_month":0,"file_year":9999,"filing_court":"unknown","end_day":0,"end_month":0,"end_year":0,"result":"","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":2,"total_people_count":5,"repository":"Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi","abstract":"William Moreton and his wife, Violet, were emancipated by Jesse Carter in Louisiana about 1814.  The Moretons left their daughter, Charlotte, in the possession of Carter, as a slave for life.  After Carter's death, the couple bought Charlotte for $352.  Moreton now petitions to free his daughter.  He writes, \"Your Petitioner although' a colored man is not devoid of feelings of humanity and nature & considers it against the laws of nature to hold his own offspring in a state of servitude.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Purchased own family (FPOC)"},{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Enslaver (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Frees own family (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Family separated (Black)"},{"subject":"Family kept together (Black)"}]}]}