{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20382501","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20382501","state":"Delaware","county":"New Castle","location_type":"County","file_day":7,"file_month":6,"file_year":1825,"filing_court":"Common Pleas","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware","abstract":"Abraham Broom, a free man of color, states that he is being illegally held as an indentured servant by a \"pretended master.\"  Currently confined to jail, Broom \"humbly apprehends he is entitled to his freedom.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"FPOC sues white"},{"subject":"Jails\/Workhouses"},{"subject":"Apprenticeship\/Indenture (FPOC)"}]}]}