{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11681416","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11681416","state":"Virginia","county":"Amherst","location_type":"County","file_day":13,"file_month":10,"file_year":1814,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"bill drawn","enslaved_count":3,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":4,"repository":"Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia","abstract":"Forty-seven-year-old free black John Charleston purchased himself a number of years ago for 110 pounds.  He has now been able to also purchase his wife, Ursley, and two children, Asberry and Caroline.  He asks for the freedom of Ursley and the children; he requests that they be permitted to remain in Virginia.","subjects":[{"subject":"Purchased own family (FPOC)"},{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Purchase of freedom"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale (enslaved family)"},{"subject":"Enslaver (FPOC)"},{"subject":"State residency issues (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Assessed Value (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchased for emancipation "},{"subject":"Frees own family (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Family kept together (Black)"}]}]}