{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11085916","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11085916","state":"Mississippi","county":"","file_year":1859,"filing_court":"Archives","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":1,"repository":"Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi","abstract":"Joe Bird, a free man of color born of free parents, asks to \"elevate himself from his present condition into Slavery.\"  Having lived in the state nearly twenty years, he has a wife and children and wishes to remain with them.  He asks to become the slave of Robert Graham.","subjects":[{"subject":"Voluntary enslavement"},{"subject":"State residency issues (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Family kept together (Black)"}]}]}