{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20186010","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20186010","state":"Alabama","county":"Montgomery","location_type":"County","file_day":1,"file_month":11,"file_year":1860,"filing_court":"Probate","end_day":1,"end_month":11,"end_year":1860,"ending_court":"Probate","result":"granted","enslaved_count":12,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":18,"repository":"Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama","abstract":"William M. Brassell, administrator of the estate of Rolen Brassell, deceased, seeks to sell the estate's personal property, including slaves, and divide the proceeds among the heirs.  A related petition reveals that Rolen Brassell died in 1857 and the slaves were kept in the estate for more than two years prior to the administrator's prayer to sell them.","subjects":[{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale (enslaved family)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Family kept together (Black)"}]}]}