<petition><petition_analysis_number>20881762</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20881762</petition_url><state>Louisiana</state><county>Orleans</county><location_type>Parish</location_type><file_day>3</file_day><file_month>9</file_month><file_year>1817</file_year><filing_court>Parish</filing_court><end_day>5</end_day><end_month>9</end_month><end_year>1817</end_year><ending_court>Parish</ending_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>1</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>1</fpoc_count><total_people_count>2</total_people_count><repository>New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana</repository><abstract>Jeanne Gravier, a free woman of color, asks the court to order posting of the emancipation notices required by the law to free Joseph, her thirty-one-year old slave, who is also her son.  Jeanne vouches that Joseph’s conduct has been "irréprochable" and he has never tried to run away [Original in French; Docket in English].</abstract><subjects><subject>owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave</subject><subject>Enslaver (FPOC)</subject><subject>Frees own family (FPOC)</subject></subjects></petition>