{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20984917","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20984917","state":"Maryland","county":"Baltimore","location_type":"County","file_day":8,"file_month":3,"file_year":1849,"filing_court":"County","end_day":28,"end_month":6,"end_year":1850,"ending_court":"Appellate","result":"granted; reversed","enslaved_count":21,"fpoc_count":3,"total_people_count":27,"repository":"Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland","abstract":"Rebecca, Richard, Sarah Jane, Maria, Joseph Franklin and Matilda Garrett complain that they have been arrested and are \"now in the custody of a certain Thomas Anderson.\"  They aver that \"they are entitled to their freedom\" and \"therefore pray that the question of their freedom may be inquired into.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Sues for freedom (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Virtually free (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Skills (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Churches"},{"subject":"Freedom seekers"},{"subject":"Term slavery"},{"subject":"Family separated (Black)"},{"subject":"Family kept together (Black)"}]}]}