{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20985732","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20985732","state":"Maryland","county":"Anne Arundel","location_type":"County","file_day":1,"file_month":5,"file_year":1857,"filing_court":"Orphans","end_day":30,"end_month":4,"end_year":1858,"ending_court":"Orphans","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland","abstract":"John Sellman maintains that his term slave named Ben \"ran off in the fall of 1855\" and \"was not gotten to service again till the following April loosing about 6 months time and causing me to expend about ninety-five dollars.\"  He asks the court for \"such additional time for him as your honors may see fit to give.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Freedom seekers"},{"subject":"Insubordination"},{"subject":"Management (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Term slavery"}]}]}