{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11682706","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11682706","state":"Virginia","county":"Rockbridge","location_type":"County","file_day":15,"file_month":12,"file_year":1827,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"referred to select committee","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":10,"repository":"Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia","abstract":"Colonizing free people of color is \"the safest and least objectionable mode of diminishing one of the greatest evils in our social condition,\" assert seventy-seven citizens of Rockbridge County.  They petition to encourage the Virginia legislature--the first to propose colonizing the black population--to pursue the cause \"with increasing energy.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Colonization to resettle"},{"subject":"White affection (FPOC)"}]}]}