{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20882810","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20882810","state":"Louisiana","county":"Orleans","location_type":"Parish","file_date_circa":"y","file_day":0,"file_month":0,"file_year":1828,"filing_court":"Parish","end_day":21,"end_month":10,"end_year":1831,"ending_court":"Parish","result":"granted","enslaved_count":4,"fpoc_count":2,"total_people_count":8,"repository":"New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana","abstract":"Pelagie Dauphin, a free woman of color, presents to the court that she has purchased for emancipation her eleven-year-old nephew named Prosper and her niece named Josephine, also eleven years of age.  She purchased Prosper in 1817 from Marie Louise Bouligny, a widow, and she has recently purchased Josephine from Joseph Enoul Duguay Livaudais.  The express condition of sale for both children was that she would emancipate them as soon as the laws of the state would permit.  Desirous to comply with the \"conditions of enfranchisement,\" she asks the court to submit her petition and supporting documents to the police jury of the parish, so that she may \"immediately proceed to the measures\" prescribed by law for the emancipation of her two relatives.","subjects":[{"subject":"Purchased own family (FPOC)"},{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Education and literacy (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale (enslaved children)"},{"subject":"Enslaver (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchased for emancipation "},{"subject":"Frees own family (FPOC)"}]}]}