{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21181803","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21181803","state":"Missouri","county":"St. Louis","location_type":"County","file_day":9,"file_month":6,"file_year":1818,"filing_court":"Circuit","end_day":0,"end_month":0,"end_year":0,"result":"","enslaved_count":14,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":22,"repository":"Civil Courts Building, St. Louis, Missouri","abstract":"Arch, a man of color, avers that his former owner, Eusebus Hubbard, signed and sealed a certain \"instrument in writing\" whereby he became free upon Hubbard's death.  Noting that Barnabas Harris now holds him as a slave, Arch prays \"your honor to make such order in his behalf to enable him to sue for his freedom as the law requires.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Sues for freedom (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Title dispute (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Prenuptial agreement"}]}]}