{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"10378501","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/10378501","state":"Delaware","county":"","file_day":27,"file_month":12,"file_year":1785,"filing_court":"Petition","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":10,"repository":"Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware","abstract":"Two hundred and three Quaker petitioners espouse the evil of slaveholding and entreat the legislature \"to take the afflicted Case of the oppressed Negroes in this State under your mature Consideration and grant them such Relief as Justice, Humanity, the common natural Rights of Mankind, and above all the precepts, and Injunctions of the christian Religion require desiring your Minds may be influenced by divine Wisdom for your Direction.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Churches"},{"subject":"White affection (FPOC)"},{"subject":"White affection (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Abolition"},{"subject":"Family separated (Black)"},{"subject":"White affection (enslaved family)"}]}]}