{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11082801","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11082801","state":"Mississippi","county":"Claiborne","location_type":"County","file_day":18,"file_month":1,"file_year":1828,"filing_court":"Petition","enslaved_count":4,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":6,"repository":"Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi","abstract":"Willing to put up a good-behavior bond, Thomas Collen asks the legislature to pass acts of emancipation for Mary Willis and her three children--Richard age about six, Daphne, age about three, and William, age about six months.  Mary, the daughter of a free woman of color named Daphne, had \"long been recognized as a free woman and exercised the privileges of one.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Virtually free (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Family kept together (Black)"}]}]}