{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20484203","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20484203","state":"District of Columbia","county":"Washington","location_type":"County","file_day":8,"file_month":8,"file_year":1842,"filing_court":"Circuit","end_day":8,"end_month":8,"end_year":1842,"ending_court":"Circuit","result":"granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":2,"total_people_count":4,"repository":"National Archives, Washington, D. C.","abstract":"John Lee, petitioning by his next friend Hickey Lee, asserts that he is a free person of color who is illegally confined to jail on the charge of being a runaway slave.  Lee claims he was manumitted by the last will and testament of Basil Hutton.  He seeks a writ of habeas corpus and safekeeping from the marshal to prevent John Poole, who has claimed Lee as his slave, from removing him beyond the jurisdiction of the court.","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"FPOC sues white"},{"subject":"Jails\/Workhouses"},{"subject":"Freedom seekers"},{"subject":"Fear of enslavement"},{"subject":"Term slavery"}]}]}