{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21586103","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21586103","state":"Texas","county":"Travis","location_type":"County","file_day":10,"file_month":9,"file_year":1861,"filing_court":"District","end_day":0,"end_month":0,"end_year":0,"result":"","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":2,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"Travis County Courthouse, Austin, Texas","abstract":"Rachel Hamilton, a \"free person of african descent,\" petitions the court to \"render a judgement and Decree\" allowing her and her two-year-old son, Jim, to \"be enslaved to\" John D. Bowen of Travis County in accordance with the law passed by the state legislature in 1858.","subjects":[{"subject":"Voluntary enslavement"},{"subject":"Family kept together (Black)"}]}]}