<petition><petition_analysis_number>21281601</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21281601</petition_url><state>North Carolina</state><county>Caswell</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_date_circa>y</file_date_circa><file_day>0</file_day><file_month>10</file_month><file_year>1816</file_year><filing_court>County</filing_court><end_day>0</end_day><end_month>10</end_month><end_year>1816</end_year><ending_court>County</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>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, &amp; faithfully."  She is literate, Parks says, and would not be a burden on society.</abstract><subjects><subject>owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave</subject><subject>Education and literacy (enslaved)</subject><subject>Skills (enslaved)</subject><subject>Church, right to attend</subject><subject>White attachment (enslaved)</subject></subjects></petition>