{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11480601","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11480601","state":"Tennessee","county":"","file_day":1,"file_month":8,"file_year":1806,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"referred to Committee of Propositions and Grievances","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee","abstract":"Gideon Blackburn represents that \"divine providence has blessed a Negro man named Jack now the property of your petitioner with uncommon talents a philanthropic disposition and a serious mind\" and that said Jack \"hath acquired a tolerably good education by which he may be qualifyed in moralizing and Christianizing his unfortunate black brethren.\"  Being \"desirous that he may be liberated from slavery,\" Blackburn prays \"that a law be passed for his emancipation and that he may in future be Known by the name of John Gloucester.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Education and literacy (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Skills (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Church, right to attend"}]}]}