{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20785209","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20785209","state":"Kentucky","county":"Scott","location_type":"County","file_day":14,"file_month":11,"file_year":1852,"filing_court":"Circuit","end_day":3,"end_month":11,"end_year":1854,"ending_court":"Circuit","result":"granted","enslaved_count":4,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":6,"repository":"Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky","abstract":"Mordacai Offutt states that he traded \"a likely negro boy named Joseph\" to John Emison in exchange for \"an old negro man and woman named George and Clarissa\" and $225 in November 1852.  Offutt confesses that he is \"by nature of feeble mind and disposed to believe every thing said to him.\"  As a result, Offutt charges that he was defrauded out of $600 by Emison because the total value of George and Clarissa is not more than $400 and Joseph is worth $800.  Offutt seeks to have the contract rescinded and Joseph returned to him.  He also asks the court to prevent Emison from removing Joseph beyond the jurisdiction of the court.","subjects":[{"subject":"Seniors (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Westward migration"},{"subject":"Skills (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Assessed Value (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Swapping (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Family kept together (Black)"}]}]}