with their help, including testimony by former persident john quincy adams, all of the slaves were cleared of any wrongdoing. they wre not, however, granted a free re turn trip to africa. the abolitionists stepped in again, and their committee raised enough money to return the remaining thirty-five former slaves from the amisted to africa. their ship arrived in sierra leone in early 1842 at that point, the men had been gone for nearly three years.