{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20884930","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20884930","state":"Louisiana","county":"East Baton Rouge","location_type":"Parish","file_day":8,"file_month":12,"file_year":1849,"filing_court":"District","end_day":7,"end_month":1,"end_year":1850,"ending_court":"District","result":"granted","enslaved_count":8,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":11,"repository":"East Baton Rouge Parish, Clerk of Court Archives, Baton Rouge, Louisiana","abstract":"Isaac R. Jackson represents that he hired out to James C. Dawson and his wife, Mary, eight slaves to work on their sugar plantation for the year 1849.  The agreed-upon price of the slaves’ hires was $650, payable in January 1850.  To secure payment, the Dawsons gave Jackson a privilege on their sugar crop.  Jackson has so far been paid $400 in “molasses & other things.”  He claims, however, that the Dawsons have now sold the “greater part” of their sugar crop and he fears that the remainder will also be “sold disposed of & removed” before he receives the balance of $250.  Jackson therefore asks that a writ of sequestration be issued on what’s left of the sugar crop.  He also asks that the Dawsons be ordered to pay the debt once due in January 1850.","subjects":[{"subject":"Hiring value (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Crops (sugar)"}]}]}