{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20882622","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20882622","state":"Louisiana","county":"Pointe Coupee","location_type":"Parish","file_day":20,"file_month":10,"file_year":1826,"filing_court":"Parish","end_day":12,"end_month":4,"end_year":1827,"ending_court":"Parish","result":"denied","enslaved_count":3,"fpoc_count":3,"total_people_count":7,"repository":"Pointe Coupee Parish Courthouse, New Roads, Louisiana","abstract":"Benjamin Poydras de la Lande writes that he entered into an agreement with Hypolite Bergeron, whereby Bergeron would grow cotton using Poydras's slaves on a tract of Poydras's land.  After the crop was harvested, Jack Hardy, a free man of color, illegally received ten thousand pounds of Poydras's cotton from Bergeron.  Poydras de la Lande estimates the value of this amount of cotton at $250.  He asks the court to compel payment from Hardy [Original in English and French; French version incomplete].","subjects":[{"subject":"Property owners (Black)"},{"subject":"Crops (Cotton)"},{"subject":"Assessed Value (enslaved)"}]}]}