<petition><petition_analysis_number>20380105</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20380105</petition_url><state>Delaware</state><county>Kent</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>3</file_day><file_month>12</file_month><file_year>1801</file_year><filing_court>Common Pleas</filing_court><enslaved_count>1</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>3</total_people_count><repository>Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware</repository><abstract>Bt her next friend, Benjamin Blackiston, Priss, a woman of color, states that Ebenezer Turner holds and detains her as a slave.  Apprehending "that she is justly entitled to her freedom," Priss asks that Turner be summoned "to answer the complaint of your petitioner."</abstract><subjects><subject>Sues for freedom (enslaved)</subject><subject>FPOC sues white</subject></subjects></petition>