{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21585818","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21585818","state":"Texas","county":"Gillespie","location_type":"County","file_day":4,"file_month":10,"file_year":1858,"filing_court":"District","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":1,"repository":"Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, New York","abstract":"Pursuant to \"an Act to permit Free persons of African Descent, to select their own Master and become Slaves,\" Ann Jackson, \"being a free female of Color respectfully Petition[s] the Honorable District Court, to choose W. C. Lewis of Mason County, State of Texas, to be my lawful master.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Voluntary enslavement"}]}]}