{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11485502","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11485502","state":"Tennessee","county":"Wilson","location_type":"County","file_day":28,"file_month":11,"file_year":1855,"filing_court":"Legislative","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":10,"repository":"Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee","abstract":"Sixteen citizens of Wilson County, \"having witnessed the evil & injurious effects growing out of the practice in force in this, & other sections of the state, in permitting Free negroes to peddle & barter about the country,\" ask that a law be passed \"which shall prohibit Free negroes from peddling & bartering about the country.\"  The petitioners avow that said free people of color offer slaves \"inducements to steal, traffic, & to indulge in other vicous practices\" and they “ask you to use proper means in the passage of an act, which shall remedy the evils above hinted at.”","subjects":[{"subject":"Occupation (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Theft by enslaved"},{"subject":"Enticing (enslaved)"}]}]}