{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20482002","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20482002","state":"District of Columbia","county":"Washington","location_type":"County","file_day":31,"file_month":10,"file_year":1820,"filing_court":"Circuit","end_day":31,"end_month":10,"end_year":1820,"ending_court":"Circuit","result":"granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":1,"repository":"National Archives, Washington, D. C.","abstract":"John McKenney, a man of color, states that he was jailed without just cause.  He claims that he \"had free papers & sufficient evidence of his freedom & never ought to have been put there.\"  He seeks a writ of habeas corpus \"to the Jailer directed that he may be brought forthwith before your Honors & released.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Freedom papers"},{"subject":"Jails\/Workhouses"}]}]}