{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20185816","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20185816","state":"Alabama","county":"Dallas","location_type":"County","file_day":19,"file_month":1,"file_year":1858,"filing_court":"Probate","enslaved_count":4,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":6,"repository":"Dallas County Courthouse, Selma, Alabama","abstract":"William B. Shields, administrator of the estate of Martin Hesler, deceased, requests permission to sell four slaves--a man named Coleman, a woman named Julia, and two children ages eight or nine and three--to pay debts.","subjects":[{"subject":"Mortgage value (enslaved)"}]}]}