<petition><petition_analysis_number>20882554</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20882554</petition_url><state>Louisiana</state><county>Orleans</county><location_type>Parish</location_type><file_day>1</file_day><file_month>7</file_month><file_year>1825</file_year><filing_court>Parish</filing_court><end_day>6</end_day><end_month>7</end_month><end_year>1825</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>François Borée, a free man of color, presents to the court that he is "desirous of emancipating &amp; freeing from the bonds of slavery" his forty-five-year-old female slave named Constance, in order to comply with the "obligation" he contracted when he purchased her.  He vouches that Constance has always "behaved in a blameless manner."  He asks the court to order the sheriff to post up "all necessary notices" of emancipation.</abstract><subjects><subject>owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave</subject><subject>Enslaver (FPOC)</subject><subject>Purchased for emancipation </subject></subjects></petition>