{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20882796","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20882796","state":"Louisiana","county":"Orleans","location_type":"Parish","file_date_circa":"y","file_day":0,"file_month":2,"file_year":1827,"filing_court":"Parish","end_day":22,"end_month":2,"end_year":1827,"ending_court":"Parish","result":"granted","enslaved_count":2,"fpoc_count":2,"total_people_count":5,"repository":"New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana","abstract":"Maria Moore Delorme, a free woman of color, asks the court to \"lay\" her \"humble petition\" before the Police Jury for their consent to the emancipation of her two slaves, twenty-eight-year-old daughter Jeanne and two-year-old grandson François.  She presents that she has purchased Jeanne and François from Louis Chauvin Deléry, with the express intent to emancipate them.  A related act of sale in the French language reveals that Louis Deléry was acting as the agent of his wife, Marie Corbin Deléry.","subjects":[{"subject":"Purchased own family (FPOC)"},{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale (enslaved family)"},{"subject":"Warranty (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchased for emancipation "},{"subject":"Frees own family (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Family kept together (Black)"}]}]}