{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20881203","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20881203","state":"Louisiana","county":"East Baton Rouge","location_type":"Parish","file_day":18,"file_month":2,"file_year":1812,"filing_court":"Parish","end_day":15,"end_month":4,"end_year":1812,"ending_court":"Parish","result":"granted","enslaved_count":2,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":5,"repository":"East Baton Rouge Parish, Clerk of Court Archives, Baton Rouge, Louisiana","abstract":"Benjamin Rhodes seeks to collect a debt from Francois Herault.  Rhodes represents that he worked as Herault's overseer in 1811 at Herault's \"special instance & request.\"  Rhodes claims that, during that year, he raised a crop of corn and cotton, boarded and lodged a man for Herault, and made \"sundry Clothes & garments for the negroes of the said Herault.\"  Herault has yet to pay Rhodes for his services.  Rhodes prays for $300 in compensation for \"work & labour.\"  A related deposition provides details about Rhodes’s year as Herault’s overseer and his economic management of the plantation and slaves.","subjects":[{"subject":"Crops (Cotton)"},{"subject":"Overseers"},{"subject":"Clandestine economy "},{"subject":"Management (enslaved)"}]}]}