{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11286101","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11286101","state":"North Carolina","county":"Wayne","location_type":"County","file_day":2,"file_month":9,"file_year":1861,"filing_court":"Archives","end_day":0,"end_month":0,"end_year":0,"result":"referred to judiciary committee; report unfavorable","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":1,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Abisha Locus, a free man of color, represents \"that he is desirous of changing his status and of selling himself for life to Mr D H Bridgers, so as to reduce himself to a state of slavery and that he may have the protection and support of a master.\"  He therefore prays \"your honorable body that you would pass some law that would enable him to give legal effect and force to his desire.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Voluntary enslavement"}]}]}