{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11686004","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11686004","state":"Virginia","county":"Brunswick","location_type":"County","file_day":9,"file_month":1,"file_year":1860,"filing_court":"Archives","result":"referred to Claims Committee","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia","abstract":"William Lett represents that the Nelson County Court of Quarter Sessions convicted his slave named Tom of a felony on 27 July 1858 and sentenced him to be hanged; Tom's sentence, however, \"was commuted to transportation being nothing more than put to labour on the Publick works of Va.\"  Confirming that the court allowed him $1080 for the said Tom, Lett argues that this \"was not a fair valuation of said slave,\" as he had \"paid $1275 for said slave, only a short time previous to his conviction, and considered him cheap at that price.\"  The petitioner therefore prays that he be given \"the true additional value of the said slave Tom.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Trials (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Non-plantation\/Non-household work (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Assessed Value (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"}]}]}