{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21283005","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21283005","state":"North Carolina","county":"Craven","location_type":"County","file_day":5,"file_month":2,"file_year":1830,"filing_court":"County","end_day":9,"end_month":3,"end_year":1830,"ending_court":"County","result":"granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":2,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"In 1829, twenty-one-year-old Connecticut free black Abraham Carpenter ran away from home and shipped aboard a sloop to New York City.  He then boarded a schooner bound for Beaufort, North Carolina, carrying a cargo of lime \"for the Fort erecting at that place.\"  At Beaufort, he left the ship and traveled on a visit to New Bern, where he was arrested and jailed as a runaway slave.  Remaining in jail \"Six long and weary months,\" Carpenter seeks a writ of habeas corpus to prove his status as a free man.","subjects":[{"subject":"Ships"},{"subject":"Seniors (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Occupation (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Jails\/Workhouses"},{"subject":"Freedom seekers"},{"subject":"Whipping"}]}]}