{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11382109","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11382109","state":"South Carolina","county":"Laurens","location_type":"District\/Parish","file_year":1821,"filing_court":"Petition","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina","abstract":"Allen Kelley, a free person of color and a blacksmith by trade, states that \"he purchased in the year 1821 his son George a Slave for whom he paid the Sum of Six hundred and four dollars.\"  Kelley prays that he be granted \"permission to indulge in so humane and desireable an object in manumitting & setting free his said son George Kelley.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Purchased own family (FPOC)"},{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Occupation (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Enslaver (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"}]}]}