to Warwick Francis did not remove the possibility of continued use and abuse of her in the household by this mistress. These circumstances may explain her absence from a listing three years later, which attempted to track the movements of 1,991 Captured Negroes released between 1808 and 1811. The 'List of Captured Negroes on Hand December 31 ${ }^{\text {st }} 1810$ and of those Received, Enlisted, Apprenticed, Disposed of to December $31^{\text {st }} 1812^{\prime}$, held in the United Kingdom's National Archives at Kew, did not record her death. The absence of information in her entry was interpreted by the colonial authorities to mean that she was among those who had 'deserted to Native Towns in the back parts of the Country'. If so, her flight from the colony was a form of resistance to her conditions in Francis's household, although another explanation for her absence from the colony was the possibility that she had been re-sold in the hinterland of Freetown.  
Only a partial reconstruction of Fuseng-be's biography is possible, and the trail of evidence comes to a halt when she was approximately 20 years old. There is scant evidence on which to comment regarding her life before the sequence of three sales commencing late in 1807 or early in 1808. Whilst the testimony in court mentions her father, there is no extant account of her wider family relationships and the nature of her upbringing. How she lived her life after the court case cannot be retraced from the available documentation. Her case is, nonetheless, extremely revealing. Unable to speak English, she still managed to glean knowledge of her rights within an abolitionist colony and contact a British military official to make her case for freedom, or at least amelioration of her treatment. She retained the use of her African name when she contacted McGregor in 1809, even though her new master had given her the name of Betsey following her arrival in Freetown.