{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11685603","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11685603","state":"Virginia","county":"Hancock","location_type":"County","file_day":27,"file_month":2,"file_year":1856,"filing_court":"Archives","result":"referred to Committee for Courts of Justice","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":10,"repository":"Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia","abstract":"One hundred three residents of Hancock County ask that \"the Laws of Virginia may be modified” in order “to protect the parental relation [of slaves], forbidding the separation of parents and young children, at the will of any man or set of men, under criminal penalties”; to “recognise and secure the marital relation to colored persons; forbidding the disregard of the sacred relation of husband and wife by any man amongst his own slaves, and protecting the same between slaves of different families”; and “to allow persons so disposed to teach persons of color to read, so as to assist their moral and mental elevation.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Education and literacy (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Education and literacy (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Church, right to attend"},{"subject":"White affection (enslaved family)"}]}]}