{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11082301","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11082301","state":"Mississippi","county":"Adams","location_type":"County","file_day":18,"file_month":11,"file_year":1823,"filing_court":"Petition","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":12,"repository":"Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi","abstract":"A group of twenty-nine citizens ask the legislature to approve the emancipation of Limerick, a fifty-year-old slave who paid his master $600 for his freedom.  Limerick, the petitioners write, \"has ever been a faithful and trusty Slave,\" and they believe \"no injury will arise to the community by means of his legal Emancipation.\"  Among the petitioners is Limerick's owner, Ezekiel Newman.","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Purchase of freedom"},{"subject":"Assessed Value (enslaved)"}]}]}