{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11285102","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11285102","state":"North Carolina","county":"Beaufort","location_type":"County","file_day":18,"file_month":1,"file_year":1851,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"referred to committee","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":10,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Thirty-eight citizens of Beaufort County \"do respectfully request of the Legeslature Now assembled to pass a law, that all free negroes creating a debt, and haveing nothing to execute, that we may levy an execution on his body and put him up publicly and hire him out untill the debt be paid.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Insolvency"}]}]}