{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21486104","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21486104","state":"Tennessee","county":"Washington","location_type":"County","file_day":19,"file_month":8,"file_year":1861,"filing_court":"Circuit","end_day":19,"end_month":8,"end_year":1861,"ending_court":"Circuit","result":"granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":2,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee","abstract":"James Johnson, a free man of color, \"desires to go into slavery and choose an owner and chooses hereby as such owner the said Edward H West.\"  Johnson recounts that West \"set your petitioners mother one Cynthia free after which your petitioner was born free.\"  Believing that said emancipation \"was legally begun & perfected in the County court of said county,\" the petitioner asks that publication of his request \"be made, that process issue and this proceeding be perfected as required by Law.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Voluntary enslavement"},{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"}]}]}