{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11279303","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11279303","state":"North Carolina","county":"","file_day":26,"file_month":12,"file_year":1793,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"House, Senate: read, referred","enslaved_count":2,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Darby Henagan seeks to emancipate \"two molatto slaves almost white\" named Penny and Ned whose mother and grandmother served him meritoriously for years.  \"Advanced in life,\" Henagan acknowledges his \"abhorrence & detestation of seeing persons of mixed blood in slavery which are almost white.\"  He therefore \"most ardently prays your Honble body to pass a Law to liberate the aforesaid Molatto children.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"}]}]}