{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20881666","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20881666","state":"Louisiana","county":"Orleans","location_type":"Parish","file_day":30,"file_month":3,"file_year":1816,"filing_court":"Parish","end_day":9,"end_month":4,"end_year":1816,"ending_court":"Parish","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana","abstract":"Paul Martin, a landowner, asks the court to order posting of the emancipation notices required by the law to emancipate his forty-year-old female slave by the name of Prudence.  Martin presents that he desires to free Prudence as a reward for her good behavior [\"sa bonne conduite\"] as well as to fulfill the obligation he contracted when he purchased her from her previous owner.  He vouches that she has never tried to run away [Original in French].","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Purchased for emancipation "}]}]}