An enraged Charles Stewart then hired slave catchers to canvass the city of London, find him, bring him not back to Charles Stewart, but to a ship, the Ann and Mary, that was floating in London Harbour, and he was chained to the deck, and the ship was to set sail for Jamaica where James was to be sold in the slave markets and be doomed to the three to five years of life that a slave had harvesting sugar cane in Jamaica.
O enraivecido Charles Stewart contratou captores de escravos, para percorrerem a cidade de Londres, encontrá-lo e trazê-lo não de volta a Charles Stewart, mas para um navio, o Ann and Mary, que estava atracado no porto de Londres. Ele foi acorrentado no convés e o navio ia partir para a Jamaica, onde James seria vendido no mercado de escravos e condenado aos três a cinco anos de vida que um escravo tinha, colhendo cana de açúcar, na Jamaica.