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.
Un emprenyat Charles Stewart va  llogar un caçador d'esclaus per a què sondegés la ciutat de Londres, el trobés, i el portés no a en Charles Steward, sinó a un vaixell, l´ "Ann and Mary", que estava amarrat al port de Londres. Després d'encadenar-lo a coberta, el vaixell havia de salpar  rumb a Jamaica on havien de vendre en James en un dels mercats d'esclaus, i l'havien de condemnar a un període de tres a cinc anys de vida d'esclau collint canya de sucre a Jamaica.