{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20382604","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20382604","state":"Delaware","county":"Kent","location_type":"County","file_day":9,"file_month":10,"file_year":1826,"filing_court":"County","end_day":11,"end_month":10,"end_year":1826,"ending_court":"County","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware","abstract":"Joseph Buckmaster seeks permission to export and sell his jailed slave, Manuel, who, while at a neighbor's home \"acted in such a manner toward a white girl about the house, as to leave no doubt on the minds of the family that his intention was to commit a rape upon her.\"  Buckmaster also asserts that Manuel has run away \"on one or two occasions\" and remained out for \"a considerable length of time.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Jails\/Workhouses"},{"subject":"Rape"},{"subject":"Freedom seekers"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"}]}]}