{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11484701","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11484701","state":"Tennessee","county":"Bedford","location_type":"County","file_day":20,"file_month":12,"file_year":1847,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"referred to committee on judiciary","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":10,"repository":"Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee","abstract":"Thirteen \"members of the Grand Jury, for the County of Bedford & state of Tennessee,\" request the passage \"of some law for the more effectually preventing negroes from selling, meats, chickens, fruits &c upon public days, at public places.\"  They declare that they \"have seen & felt the evil effects of the system now prevailing upon that subject,\" as \"the only way most of the things thus sold are obtained is by stealing -- and your petitioners amongst others suffer from their petty thefts.\"  They therefore propose a law \"authorising any person, when they see negroes thus trading, to have them taken up before a magistrate & publicly whipt, unless the negro can produce a written permit from his or her master or mistress, authorizing them thus to trade.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Theft by enslaved"},{"subject":"Clandestine economy "},{"subject":"Whipping"}]}]}