<petition><petition_analysis_number>20382501</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20382501</petition_url><state>Delaware</state><county>New Castle</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>7</file_day><file_month>6</file_month><file_year>1825</file_year><filing_court>Common Pleas</filing_court><enslaved_count>0</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>1</fpoc_count><total_people_count>2</total_people_count><repository>Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware</repository><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."</abstract><subjects><subject>FPOC sues white</subject><subject>Jails/Workhouses</subject><subject>Apprenticeship/Indenture (FPOC)</subject></subjects></petition>