{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20983308","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20983308","state":"Maryland","county":"Anne Arundel","location_type":"County","file_day":5,"file_month":4,"file_year":1833,"filing_court":"County","end_day":8,"end_month":6,"end_year":1835,"ending_court":"Appellate","result":"denied; appealed; reversed; remanded","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":5,"repository":"Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland","abstract":"Milly Howard declares that \"she is a free woman bound to no servitude to any person whatever\" and that she \"has been illegally seized and is held in bondage\" by Zachariah Duvall.  Howard petitions to establish her right to freedom and asks the court to release her from Duvall's custody.","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Sues for freedom (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Virtually free (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"}]}]}