Subsequent Career
Isaacs left Natal in 1831, when Shaka's successor Dingane had prepared to massacre the few whites living there;
In 1844 Isaacs abandoned his claim on the land granted him by Shaka and settled in Sierra Leone where he built up a thriving business. However in 1854 he was accused of slave-trading by the governor, Sir Arthur Kennedy. Isaacs got wind of his impending arrest and left for Liverpool where he was to spend the last years of his life. Kennedy was appointed Governor of New South Wales and took the papers relating to the slave-trading charges with him when returning to England before taking up his post in Australia. The papers were lost when the ship in which he was travelling, the Forerunner was wrecked off Maderia in October 1854. In the absence of the papers, the English courts refused to proceed with the prosecution.
Isaacs died in 1872.
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