Evidence discussed in the Vice-Admiralty Court in 1809 drew attention to a wider problem of internal slave sales. This internal marketing of individuals was a long-running problem, which proved difficult for the colonial authorities to police and prevent. Settlers who purchased Africans in early nineteenth-century Freetown typically misrepresented their status to the colonial authorities by claiming that they were apprentices, servants in their households or children who had been sent to live with them for a period of education. Governor Thompson attempted to track the presence of Africans in households and the reasons for their presence through regulations introduced in October 1808. As the population of Freetown expanded rapidly with the influx of Liberated Africans, however, it became even more difficult to verify whether adults and children were employed legitimately as servants or trafficked as enslaved labour. In 1853, more than four decades after the case of Fuseng-be had been adjudicated by the Vice-Admiralty Court, a Commission of Enquiry traced more than one hundred cases of adults and children purchased as slaves and brought into the colony. Females were in particular demand, with 68 of the 117 reported cases relating to women and girls. Manjah or Charlotte, 15 or 16 years of age, was a few years younger than Fuseng-be when she gave evidence about her experiences of enslavement in August 1853. In common with Fuseng-be, she had been sold a number of times to different masters before being taken into Freetown in 1848. She reported how she was cruelly treated by her mistress who was 'always be telling me that I was her slave - that if she should kill or sell me, no one would ask or harm her for it'. In common with Fuseng-be, she resisted her circumstances of enslavement by taking the opportunity to approach a colonial official and plead for her release and protection under the laws of the colony.