<petition><petition_analysis_number>20483515</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20483515</petition_url><state>District of Columbia</state><county>Washington</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>10</file_day><file_month>4</file_month><file_year>1835</file_year><filing_court>Circuit</filing_court><end_day>10</end_day><end_month>4</end_month><end_year>1835</end_year><ending_court>Circuit</ending_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>0</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>1</fpoc_count><total_people_count>1</total_people_count><repository>National Archives, Washington, D. C.</repository><abstract>Jesse Harris asserts that he is a free person of color who is illegally imprisoned as a runaway slave.  He seeks a writ of habeas corpus.</abstract><subjects><subject>Freedom papers</subject><subject>Jails/Workhouses</subject><subject>Freedom seekers</subject></subjects></petition>