{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20979115","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20979115","state":"Maryland","county":"Prince George's","location_type":"County","file_day":18,"file_month":10,"file_year":1791,"filing_court":"General","end_day":25,"end_month":6,"end_year":1802,"ending_court":"Appellate","result":"granted; appealed; reversed","enslaved_count":31,"fpoc_count":3,"total_people_count":48,"repository":"Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland","abstract":"Charles Mahoney states that \"although he is entitled to his Freedom, being descended from a free Woman named Anne Joice [Joyce],\" he is held in slavery by the Reverend John Ashton.  Mahoney requests that he be discharged from further custody.","subjects":[{"subject":"Purchased own family (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Sues for freedom (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Seniors (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Enslaver (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Testimony (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Skills (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Overseers"},{"subject":"Crops (tobacco)"},{"subject":"Homicide"},{"subject":"Slave trade (Atlantic)"},{"subject":"Purchased for emancipation "},{"subject":"Term slavery"},{"subject":"Illegitimacy "},{"subject":"Family separated (Black)"}]}]}