{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11381715","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11381715","state":"South Carolina","county":"Edgefield","location_type":"District\/Parish","file_day":5,"file_month":12,"file_year":1817,"filing_court":"Petition","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":1,"repository":"South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina","abstract":"Daniel Nail represents that, \"previous to the passage of an act to prevent the introduction of Slaves &c into this state,\" he purchased \"a negroe fellow in the state of Georgia.\"  Noting that he is \"the owner of said negroes Wife & children,\" Nail prays that \"an Act may pass authorising him to bring said negroe slave into this state.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Family separated (Black)"}]}]}