{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20785137","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20785137","state":"Kentucky","county":"Woodford","location_type":"County","file_day":4,"file_month":1,"file_year":1851,"filing_court":"Circuit","end_day":11,"end_month":3,"end_year":1853,"ending_court":"Circuit","result":"partially granted","enslaved_count":21,"fpoc_count":2,"total_people_count":25,"repository":"Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky","abstract":"Thomas Bullock owned Jane Williams and other slaves to whom he granted manumission.   All slaves who were twenty-one and unmarried had the opportunity of \"going to Liberia or some other place of freedom out of the bounds of these United States.\"  Williams charges that Eleanor Bullock, Thomas's widow, refuses to allow her and her three children to emigrate, keeps her in servitude, and is keeping the proceeds from her hire.  Williams is suing Bullock for freedom, back wages, and seeks a restraining order to prevent her removal from the state.","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Sues for freedom (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Canada, migration to"},{"subject":"Education and literacy (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Colonization to resettle"},{"subject":"Hiring value (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Skills (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Term slavery"},{"subject":"Inventory (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Family separated (Black)"}]}]}