{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20379507","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20379507","state":"Delaware","county":"Sussex","location_type":"County","file_day":18,"file_month":11,"file_year":1795,"filing_court":"County","end_date_circa":"y","end_month":11,"end_year":1795,"ending_court":"County","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware","abstract":"Stephen Mitchell seeks permission \"to send and transport\" his slave Sam \"out of this State.\"  Mitchell asserts that Sam, a conjurer, \"hath poisened one of his Negros\" and is \"now in the public prison of the County.\"  The petitioner also notes that Sam \"keeps as a wife a white woman contrary to the Laws of the Land.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Jails\/Workhouses"},{"subject":"Poisoning "},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"}]}]}