{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20484703","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20484703","state":"District of Columbia","county":"Washington","location_type":"County","file_day":9,"file_month":2,"file_year":1847,"filing_court":"Circuit","end_day":9,"end_month":2,"end_year":1847,"ending_court":"Circuit","result":"granted","enslaved_count":2,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":4,"repository":"National Archives, Washington, D. C.","abstract":"Joshua Cryer, through his next friend and mother, Winney Cryer, avers that he has filed a petition for his freedom and is now illegally held in slavery by Elizabeth Cocke and Peter Hoffman.  Cryer, fearing that they may sell him as a slave for life beyond the jurisdiction of the court, seeks an injunction to prevent such an action.","subjects":[{"subject":"Sues for freedom (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Virtually free (enslaved)"}]}]}