{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20881725","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20881725","state":"Louisiana","county":"Orleans","location_type":"Parish","file_day":2,"file_month":6,"file_year":1817,"filing_court":"Parish","end_day":2,"end_month":6,"end_year":1817,"ending_court":"Parish","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana","abstract":"Pierre Maurel presents to the court that he is \"willing to Emancipate\" his thirty-four-year-old female slave named Adele.  He declares that Adele has always \"served him faithfully & never was guilty of any criminal fault\" or of running away.  He therefore asks the court to order that the \"usual advices\" be posted up \"according to law.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"}]}]}