{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11285705","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11285705","state":"North Carolina","county":"Jackson","location_type":"County","file_day":1,"file_month":1,"file_year":1857,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"referred to committee; rejected","enslaved_count":2,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"John Gibbs petitions \"your honorable body to pass an act emancipating his slaves Lucy a molatto woman and her daughter Roxanna to take effect after the death of your petitioner and his wife.\"  Gibbs \"guarantees to leave them a sufficient legacy to keep them from want or from ever becoming a burden to the public.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Bequest (enslaved)"}]}]}