<petition><petition_analysis_number>20978201</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20978201</petition_url><state>Maryland</state><county>Anne Arundel</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>8</file_day><file_month>10</file_month><file_year>1782</file_year><filing_court>General</filing_court><end_day>6</end_day><end_month>5</end_month><end_year>1783</end_year><ending_court>Appellate</ending_court><result>granted; appealed; affirmed</result><enslaved_count>19</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>1</fpoc_count><total_people_count>26</total_people_count><repository>Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland</repository><abstract>Eleanor Toogood states that she "is unjustly and illegally deprived of her Liberty and detained in Slavery by Doctor Upton Scott" as she is descended from "a Free white woman and well entitled to her freedom."  Toogood requests that Scott be made to answer this petition.</abstract><subjects><subject>Sues for freedom (enslaved)</subject><subject>Virtually free (enslaved)</subject><subject>Crops (tobacco)</subject><subject>Churches</subject><subject>Diseases (physical)</subject><subject>Interracial relationships</subject><subject>Assessed Value (enslaved)</subject><subject>Purchase/Sale prices (enslaved)</subject></subjects></petition>