{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20882219","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20882219","state":"Louisiana","county":"Orleans","location_type":"Parish","file_day":24,"file_month":5,"file_year":1822,"filing_court":"District","end_day":24,"end_month":4,"end_year":1823,"ending_court":"District","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":8,"total_people_count":10,"repository":"New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana","abstract":"Nicholas Tachaud, \"born free from free persons on the island of St. Domingue,\" claims to have been \"unjustly & illegally detained\" as a slave by Richard Richardson.  Tachaud asks to be declared a free person and to be placed \"provisionally under the custody of the Sheriff\" while his case is being decided.","subjects":[{"subject":"Sues for freedom (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Death of enslaved (disease)"},{"subject":"Orphans"},{"subject":"Caribbean Islands, migration from\/to"},{"subject":"Testimony (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"},{"subject":"Illegitimacy "}]}]}