{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11380303","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11380303","state":"South Carolina","county":"Abbeville","location_type":"District\/Parish","file_year":1803,"filing_court":"Petition","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":10,"repository":"South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina","abstract":"Twenty-one citizens of Abbeville District, \"from a knowledge of and sympathy for the situation of Mr. Harris,\" support the petition of Samuel Harris, whose twenty-year-old slave Harry was accidentally killed on the 26 March 1802 while working on the public road by \"the fall of a tree.\"  Harris owned only one slave and \"is in such circumstances as renders him verry illy able to sustain a loss of that nature & degree.\"  The petitioners therefore pray that \"such a compensation may be allowed & decreed to the said Harris, as may repair the loss he has sustained in the service of the public.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Non-plantation\/Non-household work (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Death of enslaved (other)"}]}]}