{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20882138","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20882138","state":"Louisiana","county":"Orleans","location_type":"Parish","file_day":6,"file_month":4,"file_year":1821,"filing_court":"Parish","end_day":7,"end_month":4,"end_year":1821,"ending_court":"Parish","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana","abstract":"Antoine Villard, a free man of color, presents to the court that he wishes to emancipate \"from the bonds of slavery\" his thirty-year-old female slave named Beatrix.  He declares that Beatrix has always had a good conduct and has never \"offered\" to run away.  He asks the court to order that the \"proper\" notices of emancipation be posted up for forty days according to law.","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Enslaver (FPOC)"}]}]}