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Charles Ball Some slaves did not believe the British proclamation to free all American slaves, seeing the operation as a ruse to sell then to new owners. Charles Ball, for example, an escaped slave, worked for the British, but told them that he was a free man. (in some accounts he serves as a cook for Com. Barney instead of the British.) After the war, he stayed in the Untied States and purchased a farm in Maryland that he operated. However, because he refused to be resettled with other escaped slaves to the West Indies, we was identified and recaptured in 1830. If he had migrated to British territory he would have been protected from capture.
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