{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11681008","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11681008","state":"Virginia","county":"Charlotte","location_type":"County","file_day":20,"file_month":12,"file_year":1810,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"referred to propositions, reasonable reported","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":10,"repository":"Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia","abstract":"One hundred seventy-two petitioners complain about slaves who keep and raise horses and hogs.  Those who do, the petitioners say, steal hogs, corn, and provisions from their white neighbors. Petitioners seek a law to penalize slaveholders who, \"directly or indirectly permit their slaves to own or possess any horses or hogs.\"  The slave-owned property should be confiscated and either turned over to the informer, or used to assist poor people.","subjects":[{"subject":"Theft by enslaved"},{"subject":"Clandestine economy "}]}]}