<petition><petition_analysis_number>20784116</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20784116</petition_url><state>Kentucky</state><county>Barren</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>25</file_day><file_month>3</file_month><file_year>1841</file_year><filing_court>Circuit</filing_court><end_month>3</end_month><end_year>1845</end_year><ending_court>Circuit</ending_court><result>denied</result><enslaved_count>10</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>18</total_people_count><repository>Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky</repository><abstract>Siller, a woman of color, sues for her freedom by virtue of being the granddaughter of an Indian woman in Virginia.  She fears that in response to her freedom suit she will be "removed beyond the jurisdiction of your Honorable Court, and there secreted or sold" unless the court intercedes.</abstract><subjects><subject>owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave</subject><subject>Sues for freedom (enslaved)</subject><subject>Westward migration</subject><subject>Hiring value (enslaved)</subject><subject>Native Americans</subject><subject>Interracial relationships</subject><subject>Family separated (Black)</subject></subjects></petition>