{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20785309","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20785309","state":"Kentucky","county":"Pike","location_type":"County","file_day":23,"file_month":3,"file_year":1853,"filing_court":"County","end_day":30,"end_month":6,"end_year":1854,"ending_court":"Appellate","result":"granted; appealed; dismissed","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":7,"repository":"Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky","abstract":"On 23 March 1853, \"Yellow Sam a free negroe of Colour\" charged that he was unlawfully seized and taken into custody by William and James Weddington and others.  Sam asserts \"that he is a free man being manumitted by his deceased master James Sloan.\"  Sam asks the court \"to grant him a writ of habeas corpus\" and to release him from the defendants' custody.","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Freedom papers"},{"subject":"FPOC sues white"}]}]}