<petition><petition_analysis_number>20885001</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20885001</petition_url><state>Louisiana</state><county>Pointe Coupee</county><location_type>Parish</location_type><file_day>9</file_day><file_month>10</file_month><file_year>1850</file_year><filing_court>District</filing_court><end_day>9</end_day><end_month>10</end_month><end_year>1850</end_year><ending_court>District</ending_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>1</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>1</fpoc_count><total_people_count>2</total_people_count><repository>Pointe Coupee Parish Courthouse, New Roads, Louisiana</repository><abstract>George Michel, a free man of color, seeks to emancipate his twenty-two-year-old female slave named Euranie.  Michel represents that he has already obtained the consent of the police jury to proceed with Euranie’s emancipation.  Furthermore, the police jury has authorized Euranie to remain in the state and dispensed George Michel from having to give bond.  George Michel therefore prays that the sheriff be ordered to post up the emancipation notices, "in french and in English,” during forty days in order to publish his intention to free his slave.  Finally, Michel prays to be authorized to pass the act of emancipation if no opposition is filed.</abstract><subjects><subject>owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave</subject><subject>Enslaver (FPOC)</subject></subjects></petition>