{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20382306","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20382306","state":"Delaware","county":"Kent","location_type":"County","file_day":24,"file_month":5,"file_year":1823,"filing_court":"County","end_day":27,"end_month":5,"end_year":1823,"ending_court":"County","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":38,"repository":"Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware","abstract":"Residents of Kent County ask that James Whitaker Sr. be permitted to sell his slave Luke, an outrageous fellow who has \"run his said Master to more than one hundred Dollars Cost and is stealing and trading away his said Masters Property.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Jails\/Workhouses"},{"subject":"Trials (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Passing as white"},{"subject":"Freedom seekers"},{"subject":"Destruction of property"},{"subject":"Theft by enslaved"},{"subject":"Assault"},{"subject":"White affection (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Clandestine economy "},{"subject":"Management (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"}]}]}