{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11285405","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11285405","state":"North Carolina","county":"Cumberland","location_type":"County","file_day":20,"file_month":11,"file_year":1854,"filing_court":"Petition","result":"rejected","enslaved_count":3,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":5,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"John Cook represents that \"he is the owner of certain Slaves named Handy, Polly, & Louisa, formerly the property of Archibald McLauchlin.\"  He further states that the said Handy raised \"a sufficient sum to purchase himself, his wife Polly & daughter Louisa with a view to their ... emancipation.\"  Describing the family as \"sober humble upright industrious & good persons & of consistent character,\" the petitioner therefore prays \"that an act may be passed by your Honorable body emancipating said slaves Handy & his wife Polly & daughter Louisa.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Purchase of freedom"},{"subject":"Seniors (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Skills (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Churches"},{"subject":"Purchased for emancipation "}]}]}