{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11379411","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11379411","state":"South Carolina","county":"Charleston","location_type":"District\/Parish","file_day":4,"file_month":12,"file_year":1794,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"referred to committee","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":4,"repository":"South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina","abstract":"The “Directors & Stockholders\" of the Santee Canal Company seek the passage of an act to exempt the \"large number of negroes at a very great expence\" who are \"actually employed in their service on the proposed Canal between Santee & Cooper rivers\" from being \"compelled under heavy penalties to work on the high roads in the Parishes of St. Stephen's & St. John's.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Non-plantation\/Non-household work (enslaved)"}]}]}