{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20979118","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20979118","state":"Maryland","county":"Anne Arundel","location_type":"County","file_day":1,"file_month":11,"file_year":1791,"filing_court":"General","end_date_circa":"y","end_month":11,"end_year":1797,"ending_court":"Appellate","result":"granted; appealed; affirmed","enslaved_count":56,"fpoc_count":9,"total_people_count":93,"repository":"Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland","abstract":"Henny Boston states that she is being held in slavery by John Francis Mercer when in fact \"she is entitled to Freedom being descended from a free yellow woman being one of the portuguese.\"  Boston asks that she be discharged from service to Mercer.","subjects":[{"subject":"Sues for freedom (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Seniors (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Testimony (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Crops (tobacco)"},{"subject":"Churches"},{"subject":"Church, right to attend"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"},{"subject":"Whipping"},{"subject":"Slave trade (Atlantic)"},{"subject":"Term slavery"},{"subject":"Inventory (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Family separated (Black)"},{"subject":"Veterans"}]}]}