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.
Razbješnjeli Charles Stewart tada je angažirao hvatače robova kako bi pretražili London, pronašli ga, doveli ga ne natrag Charlesu Stewartu, već na brod koji je bio privezan u londonskoj luci, i bio je okovan za palubu i brod je trebao isploviti za Jamajku gdje je James trebao biti prodan na tržnici robova i osuđen na tri do pet godina života koliko su robovi živjeli berući šećernu trsku na Jamajci.