{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21200010","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21200010","state":"North Carolina","county":"Craven","location_type":"County","file_year":9999,"filing_court":"Superior","ending_court":"Superior","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Stephen Forbes asks the court to emancipate his fifty-year-old slave Lettice.  During her long life of servitude, Forbes states, Lettice has always been honest, faithful, and submissive.  She has never violated his trust.  Her \"diligence & fidelity has been remarkable,\" Forbes adds [date(s) of slave ownership cannot be determined in this document].","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Skills (enslaved)"},{"subject":"White attachment (enslaved)"}]}]}