{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21485746","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21485746","state":"Tennessee","county":"Davidson","location_type":"County","file_day":29,"file_month":11,"file_year":1857,"filing_court":"Chancery","end_day":0,"end_month":0,"end_year":0,"result":"","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County Archives","abstract":"Delia Larkins, a term slave, requests that a decree rendered in her behalf \"be vacated & anuled.\"  She explains that her previous petition accused William Summerhill of fraudulently selling her as a slave for life and that the court ruled in her favor.  She informs the court that \"Mr. Summerhill has since died & she has no cause now to fear;\" that \"Mr Thos R. Smith, now owns her said term;\" and that \"she is not afraid of being run off & sold by him.\"  Larkins states that \"she understands that decree was for her benefit & for no other\" and that being the case, she would like said decree set aside.  In addition, she declares that \"she does not want Mr Meiss [Meigs] any further to interfere & consern himself about her.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Jails\/Workhouses"},{"subject":"Term slavery"}]}]}