{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20883564","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20883564","state":"Louisiana","county":"Orleans","location_type":"Parish","file_day":0,"file_month":4,"file_year":1835,"filing_court":"Police Jury","end_day":19,"end_month":6,"end_year":1835,"ending_court":"Parish","result":"granted","enslaved_count":2,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":4,"repository":"New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana","abstract":"Myrtille Courcelle presents to the police jury that he is the \"true and legitimate owner\" of a four-and-a-half-year-old orphan boy named Zach or Alexandre or Alexandre Smith.  He further presents that he intends to give Zach \"some education\" and to assure \"unto him the advantages of a free man of colour,\" and that, for that purpose, he wishes to emancipate him.  He therefore asks the police jury to order Zach's emancipation.  We learn from a related document in the French language that Myrtille Courcelle was a free man of color and that he purchased Zach and his mother, Eugénie or Jenny, from James Huie of Rowan County, North Carolina in 1831.","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Education and literacy (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Orphans"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale (enslaved family)"},{"subject":"Enslaver (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Warranty (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Family kept together (Black)"}]}]}