{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20882789","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20882789","state":"Louisiana","county":"St. Landry","location_type":"Parish","file_day":10,"file_month":11,"file_year":1827,"filing_court":"Parish","end_day":12,"end_month":3,"end_year":1828,"ending_court":"Parish","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"St. Landry Parish Courthouse, Opelousas, Louisiana","abstract":"\"The petition of Cyprien Marie Jeanne a free man of color of the Parish of St Landry, with respect, represents, that in the month of August last he purchased of Genevieve Carriere, widow Pilip Lacaze, a female mulatto child slave named Euphrosine aged now about one year, of which child your petitioner is the father--  That this purchase was made with a view to the emancipation of the child, and wishing to give her liberty, makes this application under the act of 31 January 1827-- and prays that he may be allowed to pass the act of emancipation and as in duty bound he will ever pray.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Purchased own family (FPOC)"},{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale (enslaved children)"},{"subject":"Purchased for emancipation "},{"subject":"Frees own family (FPOC)"}]}]}