{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21586008","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21586008","state":"Texas","county":"Polk","location_type":"County","file_day":22,"file_month":3,"file_year":1860,"filing_court":"District","end_day":0,"end_month":0,"end_year":0,"result":"","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":1,"repository":"Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, New York","abstract":"Gabriel Todd, a free man of color, declares that \"he desires to avail himself of the law permitting him to select a master and become a slave.\"  He believes Edward D. Martin \"to be a proper person,\" and he asks for a decree permitting him \"to be the slave of the said Edward D. Martin.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Voluntary enslavement"}]}]}