Thompson did not baulk at using the term 'slave' to describe Fuseng-be's status. In the judgment he handed down in the Vice-Admiralty Court, he pronounced that she had been 'illegally sold or disposed of as a slave in this colony, and as such to be adjudged forfeited to His Majesty'. As a result, her name was entered in the Register of Liberated Africans (held at the Sierra Leone National Archives), and she was ascribed the unique identity number of 100. Fuseng-be was grouped together in the Register with enslaved Africans who had been released from the American ships Baltimore and Eliza in March 1808. Her circumstances of enslavement were different from those of the 148 men, women and children with whom she was listed under the category of 'Slaves Seized in the Colony' in the Register. As she had been trafficked internally, Fuseng-be did not share the same experiences as those Africans who had been sold into the export trade from Africa. In contrast to the others with whom she had been listed, she had not been embarked on a slave ship, transported in the Middle Passage and intercepted partway through the journey by a Royal Navy vessel. Even so, Thompson's use of the legal processes of the Vice-Admiralty Court to deal with her case meant that she was classified as a 'Captured Negro' or 'Liberated African'. As such, she could be disposed of using the same methods adopted for other 'Captured Negroes', including apprenticeship.