{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21680712","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21680712","state":"Virginia","county":"Frederick","location_type":"County","file_day":5,"file_month":3,"file_year":1807,"filing_court":"Chancery","end_day":0,"end_month":7,"end_year":1815,"ending_court":"Chancery","result":"dismissed","enslaved_count":2,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":4,"repository":"Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia","abstract":"In 1805 Moses Shepherd hired two slaves, a man for £20 and a woman for £5, from Drusilla Ball.  He received a guarantee from Ball that the male slave was \"sound and well\" and that the female slave \"would not have a child in the year as she knew she did not breed in such a manner having lately had a child.\"  Shepherd charges that the man \"was greivously afflicted with a venereal disorder whereby he was rendered greatly incapable of service,\" while the woman did indeed give birth to a child.  Refusing to pay the full hire price for the two slaves and facing a judgment against him, Shepherd asks for an injunction to halt the proceedings.","subjects":[{"subject":"Hiring value (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Freedom seekers"},{"subject":"Diseases (physical)"},{"subject":"Forced reproduction"},{"subject":"Warranty (enslaved)"}]}]}