{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11682306","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11682306","state":"Virginia","county":"Fluvanna","location_type":"County","file_day":19,"file_month":12,"file_year":1823,"filing_court":"Legislative","end_day":14,"end_month":1,"end_year":1824,"ending_court":"Legislative","result":"rejected","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":2,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia","abstract":"Anna Shelton, a slave owned by John Ashlin, married Peyton Shelton, a free man of color, who purchased and emancipated her.  Now she discovers that by law she must leave \"her husband, her home & her friends.\"  She seeks permission to remain in Virginia.","subjects":[{"subject":"Purchased own family (FPOC)"},{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Enslaver (FPOC)"},{"subject":"State residency issues (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Frees own family (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Family kept together (Black)"}]}]}