{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20482211","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20482211","state":"District of Columbia","county":"Washington","location_type":"County","file_day":6,"file_month":9,"file_year":1822,"filing_court":"Circuit","end_day":7,"end_month":9,"end_year":1822,"ending_court":"Circuit","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":8,"repository":"National Archives, Washington, D. C.","abstract":"Amelia Sewell and family seek a subpoena and an injunction against Lewis Booth who \"wrongfully obtained possession of\" a thirteen- or fourteen-year-old mulatto slave girl, Maria O'Neall.  Booth promptly sold her to John Alford, reputed to be \"one of the regular Traders . . . who was making arrangements to convey her away to the South.\"  The Sewells were issued a writ of replevin and paid $600 security to prosecute the matter.  Maria is now back with the Sewells, and they seek an injunction to bar the defendants from receiving a writ of replevin against them and to protect their possession of Maria until the court rules on their case.","subjects":[{"subject":"Concealing (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Theft of enslaved"},{"subject":"Title dispute (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Slave trade (domestic)"}]}]}