{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11081903","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11081903","state":"Mississippi","county":"Jefferson","location_type":"County","file_year":1819,"filing_court":"Petition","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi","abstract":"Dr. Benjamin M. Bullen asks permission to emancipate a woman named Juliette, a faithful slave who had belonged to his late friend, Colonel David Carradine.  Bullen informs the court that Juliette is a \"faithful\" servant who nursed Carradine \"during a long distressing and lingering illness.\"  Carradine had owned Juliette until shortly before he died, when he sold her for $1 to Bullen and asked him to see to her emancipation.  Juliette was twenty-four years of age and worked as a house servant.  She should be freed, Bullen said, because of her \"services, honesty and fidelity.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Purchased for emancipation "}]}]}