 alfred's owner ended up suing and bill foster was ordered to pay 1500 it's pretty clear from the records that he didn't really own anything besides the clotilda and so it seems likely that this was about the time that timothy mayer would have approached him about sailing to dahomey and fetching this cargo of slaves mayor offered to pay him a cut of the proceeds about half a dozen slaves which would have been worth thousands of dollars in the market so foster agreed to do it they re-rigged the clotilda