{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20983307","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20983307","state":"Maryland","county":"Anne Arundel","location_type":"County","file_day":25,"file_month":10,"file_year":1833,"filing_court":"County","end_day":8,"end_month":6,"end_year":1835,"ending_court":"Appellate","result":"granted; appealed; reversed; remanded","enslaved_count":6,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":8,"repository":"Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland","abstract":"Jim Sharp states that \"he is a free man, and entitled to be at liberty\" but he is currently \"claimed as a slave by Thomas Allein.\"  Sharp requests to be free.","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Freedom papers"},{"subject":"Sues for freedom (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Virtually free (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Term slavery"},{"subject":"Insolvency"}]}]}