<petition><petition_analysis_number>21200010</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21200010</petition_url><state>North Carolina</state><county>Craven</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_year>9999</file_year><filing_court>Superior</filing_court><ending_court>Superior</ending_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>1</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>2</total_people_count><repository>North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina</repository><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 &amp; fidelity has been remarkable," Forbes adds [date(s) of slave ownership cannot be determined in this document].</abstract><subjects><subject>owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave</subject><subject>Skills (enslaved)</subject><subject>White attachment (enslaved)</subject></subjects></petition>