{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11483327","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11483327","state":"Tennessee","county":"Madison","location_type":"County","file_day":12,"file_month":10,"file_year":1833,"filing_court":"Petition","result":"referred to committee on claims","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee","abstract":"David Shropshire, the Madison County jailer, seeks reimbursement for keeping a runaway slave named Jacob.  Shropshire represents that he is owed $148.12 for keeping the said Jacob 395 day at the daily rate of 37 1\/2 cents.  He further reports that said slave was sold at auction \"bringing the sum of $82.51 which deducted from the amount before specified leaves a balance due your Petitioner of $65.62.  The petitioner therefore prays that \"the deficiency in the sale of said slave of $65.21 will be allowed him.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Jails\/Workhouses"},{"subject":"Freedom seekers"},{"subject":"Auctions"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"}]}]}