{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20681825","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20681825","state":"Georgia","county":"Twiggs","location_type":"County","file_day":4,"file_month":8,"file_year":1818,"filing_court":"Superior","end_date_circa":"y","end_day":0,"end_month":0,"end_year":1818,"ending_court":"Superior","result":"granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, New York","abstract":"Jose Gelar states that he is a \"native of the Island of Cuba belonging to the Dominion of his Catholic Majesty the King of Spain, and by birth a freeman.\"  Gelar contends that he was taken by \"persons claiming to be citizens of the United States\" and now he is \"deprived of his Liberty\" and held as a slave.  He asks for a writ of Habeas Corpus.","subjects":[{"subject":"Caribbean Islands, migration from\/to"},{"subject":"FPOC sues white"}]}]}