{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20978908","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20978908","state":"Maryland","county":"Anne Arundel","location_type":"County","file_day":12,"file_month":5,"file_year":1789,"filing_court":"General","end_day":9,"end_month":10,"end_year":1792,"ending_court":"Appellate","result":"denied; appealed","enslaved_count":42,"fpoc_count":4,"total_people_count":52,"repository":"Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland","abstract":"Richard Booth claims that he \"is descended from a free Woman and is unjustly deprived of his Liberty by David Weems,\" who holds him as a slave.  Booth requests that Weems be summoned to answer his complaint.","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Sues for freedom (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Occupation (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Testimony (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"},{"subject":"Assessed Value (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Term slavery"},{"subject":"Inventory (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Family separated (Black)"}]}]}