{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11283804","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11283804","state":"North Carolina","county":"Wake","location_type":"County","file_year":1838,"filing_court":"Legislative","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":7,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Charles Dewey seeks to emancipate Tom Mitchell, a twenty-six-year-old enslaved carpenter.  Dewey represents that said \"Tom is a man of very good character, of quiet & orderly behavior & very humble & respectful in his deportment towards white people.\"  He therefore prays that \"he may be liberated & made a free man & known & called as such by the name Tom Mitchell.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Purchase of freedom"},{"subject":"Skills (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchased for emancipation "}]}]}