Francis haggled over the sum demanded by Peters for Fuseng-be and eventually succeeded in bargaining her price down from $\$ 120$ to $\$ 100$. As a result of this purchase, Fuseng-be was taken into the household of this man, aged approximately 51 years, who had been a slave on a plantation in South Carolina. He was one of the Black Loyalists who had fought for the British in the American War of Independence, and who had migrated to Sierra Leone after a period of re-settlement in Nova Scotia. It is likely that Warwick Francis was the same person listed in the Book of Negroes in 1783 as 'Warwick, 26, stout fellow [...] Formerly Slave to Aaron Jellet, Charlestown, So[uth] Carolina; left him five years ago'. This description is consistent with evidence Francis gave to Paul Cuffe in 1812 about the cruelty inflicted on slaves by Jellet. Francis's  
experience of enslavement in the southern states of America is also confirmed by the reports he gave of cases of cruelty on another South Carolina plantation by John Draten [Drayton].