{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11283302","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11283302","state":"North Carolina","county":"Cumberland","location_type":"County","file_day":22,"file_month":11,"file_year":1833,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":4,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Joseph Hostler, a barber in Fayetteville belonging to the estate of David Smith, reports that Smith allowed him \"to purchase his own freedom\" and that he has \"paid to the said Smith & his Executrix ... the full sum of Five hundred Dollars, the sum required of him\"; he also states that he has paid $96 \"per year for about Four years and a half.\"  The petitioner therefore \"prays that he may be emancipated and admitted to the privileges of free men of Colour in this state.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Sues for freedom (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchase of freedom"},{"subject":"Virtually free (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Hiring value (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Skills (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Assessed Value (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchased for emancipation "},{"subject":"Insolvency"}]}]}