<petition><petition_analysis_number>20882138</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20882138</petition_url><state>Louisiana</state><county>Orleans</county><location_type>Parish</location_type><file_day>6</file_day><file_month>4</file_month><file_year>1821</file_year><filing_court>Parish</filing_court><end_day>7</end_day><end_month>4</end_month><end_year>1821</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>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.</abstract><subjects><subject>owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave</subject><subject>Enslaver (FPOC)</subject></subjects></petition>