{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11382209","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11382209","state":"South Carolina","county":"Charleston","location_type":"District\/Parish","file_day":22,"file_month":11,"file_year":1822,"filing_court":"Petition","result":"referred to special committee","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina","abstract":"Jane Thompson seeks compensation for a slave, Pharaoh, who was convicted \"of having been concerned in the late attempt to excite Insurrection in the city of Charleston.\"  Thompson asserts that Pharaoh was her only slave and that being deprived of him will expose her to \"want and suffering in extreme old age.\"  The petitioner contends that Pharaoh, who \"had always demeaned himself in the most orderly submissive ... manner,\" was \"the victim of a wicked combination among his accusers and that if he ever entered at all into the views of the conspirators it was done at the express Suggestion of the Person under whose controul he was and with the Laudable Intention to expose their machinations.\"  Alleging that the said slave \"was convicted on the testimony Chiefly of Two convicts and Felons,\" Thompson \"humbly Prays that such relief may be granted to her as to your Honorable house shall seem proper.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Execution (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Trials (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Insurrections\/Revolts (enslaved)"}]}]}