{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21385934","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21385934","state":"South Carolina","county":"Chester","location_type":"District","file_day":2,"file_month":7,"file_year":1859,"filing_court":"Equity","end_day":0,"end_month":0,"end_year":0,"result":"","enslaved_count":3,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":6,"repository":"South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina","abstract":"C. D. Melton, guardian of John D. Roden, requests the court's permission to purchase three slaves for the benefit of his nineteen-year-old ward.  Melton represents that he desires to purchase Charity and her two children, Harry and Selena.  He asserts that he has already contracted to purchase them for $1750.  He therefore prays that the court will authorize said purchase.  The affidavit of Dr. J. W. Moore refers to Charity as a \"breeding woman.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale (enslaved family)"},{"subject":"Forced reproduction"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Enslaver (minors)"},{"subject":"Family kept together (Black)"}]}]}