{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21484956","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21484956","state":"Tennessee","county":"Shelby","location_type":"County","file_date_circa":"y","file_day":2,"file_month":4,"file_year":1849,"filing_court":"County","end_date_circa":"y","end_day":2,"end_month":4,"end_year":1849,"ending_court":"County","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"Memphis and Shelby County Archives, Memphis, Tennessee","abstract":"Charles A. Leath \"is desirous of setting free and emancipating his negro man slave named David Lawrence.\"  Leath claims that the thirty-five-year-old slave \"has served him well and faithfully and has earned by his services and good behavior a title to his freedom and has fully paid out in labor, his full value-- and is an honest slave and of good character.\"  He \"prays your Worships that Said slave David Lawrence be emancipated and set free, he giving hereby his full assent.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"State residency issues (FPOC)"}]}]}