{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20379503","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20379503","state":"Delaware","county":"Kent","location_type":"County","file_day":12,"file_month":12,"file_year":1795,"filing_court":"County","end_month":12,"end_year":1795,"ending_court":"County","result":"granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":1,"repository":"Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware","abstract":"Thomas Dennis, \"a free negro\" who is \"now upwards of Seventy years of age,\" asks to be sold into servitude for a sufficient period to satisfy court costs and damages on felony indictments adjudged against him.","subjects":[{"subject":"Voluntary enslavement"},{"subject":"Seniors (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Jails\/Workhouses"},{"subject":"Term slavery"}]}]}