{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21281601","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21281601","state":"North Carolina","county":"Caswell","location_type":"County","file_date_circa":"y","file_day":0,"file_month":10,"file_year":1816,"filing_court":"County","end_day":0,"end_month":10,"end_year":1816,"ending_court":"County","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Petitioning in conjunction with his eighteen-year-old slave Rebecca, planter Solomon Parks asks for a license of emancipation.  Rebecca has served him with distinction, and has \"conducted herself uprightly, honestly, morrally, religiously, & faithfully.\"  She is literate, Parks says, and would not be a burden on society.","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Education and literacy (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Skills (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Church, right to attend"},{"subject":"White attachment (enslaved)"}]}]}