Help importing Photoshop file into Freehand.

Can someone help me with what must be a simple problem that I can't seem to
solve.

I simply want to import a piece of scanned line art from Photoshop 7 into a
document in Freehand 9.

The line art, which is black lines, needs to be white inside of the boundary
of those lines against the solid color background of the Freehand doc. For
simplicity, lets say a ball, drawn with a black line, which is white inside,
sitting on a blue background. (Yes, I know I can draw a ball in Freehand,
it's just for the example.)

What I have tried:

In Photoshop, I select the white space around the ball with the Magic Wand
then chose Select > Inverse to get the ball selected. Then I, Layer > New >
Layer via Copy, which creates a new layer with just the ball, white inside
and no white background around it, I see the gray checkerboard pattern where
the ball isn't.

But when I go to my Freehand doc and choose File > Import and bring in this
Photoshop element it appears as a white rectangle (the Photoshop canvas)
with the ball in it. I don't want the stupid white rectangle, just the white
ball.

What am I doing wrong?