{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20784716","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20784716","state":"Kentucky","county":"Jefferson","location_type":"County","file_day":24,"file_month":12,"file_year":1847,"filing_court":"Chancery","end_day":11,"end_month":10,"end_year":1850,"ending_court":"Chancery","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":7,"repository":"Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky","abstract":"Caroline or Catharine, a woman of color, seeks her freedom from William H. Kelly explaining that \"she was born free, being the child of a white woman.\"  On 19 November 1844, Kelly purchased \"a mulatto girl named Catharine aged seven years for $150.00 cash,\" from two men, James Quarles and J. W. Brawner.  Kelly contends that the two men fraudulently sold the girl to him as a slave.","subjects":[{"subject":"Sues for freedom (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale (enslaved children)"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"},{"subject":"Warranty (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"}]}]}