{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20979122","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20979122","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":24,"fpoc_count":8,"total_people_count":48,"repository":"Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland","abstract":"Maria Boston states that \"she is entitled to her freedom being descended from a free yellow woman being one of the Portuguese\" but that she is \"detained in slavery\" by Richard Sprigg.  Boston asks that she be discharged from the service of Sprigg.","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"}]}]}