{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20185713","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20185713","state":"Alabama","county":"Montgomery","location_type":"County","file_day":5,"file_month":1,"file_year":1857,"filing_court":"Probate","end_day":17,"end_month":1,"end_year":1857,"ending_court":"Probate","result":"granted","enslaved_count":6,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":13,"repository":"Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama","abstract":"Nathan Anderson, administrator of the estate of Hamlin Saunders, deceased, seeks permission to sell three slaves for the payment of debts.  A related document reveals that during the year 1857, Anderson sold a total of six slaves from the estate of the late Saunders.  On 17 January 1857, a man paid $1,100 cash for one of the slaves, John, who was \"Sold out of Jail.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale (enslaved children)"},{"subject":"Jails\/Workhouses"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"}]}]}