{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20783701","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20783701","state":"Kentucky","county":"Jefferson","location_type":"County","file_day":13,"file_month":3,"file_year":1837,"filing_court":"Chancery","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":6,"repository":"Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky","abstract":"Ambrose Mann sues a steamboat company for $1,500, the amount he lost when his mulatto slave Lemuel escaped to Canada.  Mann had hired Lemuel out to work aboard the steamboat Paul Jones.  Mann claims that Lemuel had been a \"faithful & excellent & capable servant until he was seduced by the hope of freedom.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Freedom papers"},{"subject":"Canada, migration to"},{"subject":"Ships"},{"subject":"Non-plantation\/Non-household work (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Hiring value (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Skills (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Freedom seekers"},{"subject":"Abolition"},{"subject":"Assessed Value (enslaved)"}]}]}