Home / Full timeline / The treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the American Revolutionary War that began 8 years earlier. The US had reversed their promise of freeing enslaved Black militia men at war’s end, but the British kept their promise.
The treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the American Revolutionary War that began 8 years earlier. The US had reversed their promise of freeing enslaved Black militia men at war’s end, but the British kept their promise.
1783 (Sep 3)
Signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, the treaty of Paris officially ended the American Revolutionary War. The treaty set the boundaries between the British Empire in North America and the United States of America. By this time, the US reversed their promise of enslaved militia men gaining freedom at war’s end just 2 years earlier. They now require that all property, including enslaved persons, be left in place. British military General Guy Carleton, however, kept his promise and shipped 3,000 Black Loyalist to Novia Scotia (modern day Maritime Canada), many of which left Nova Scotia to create an independent colony in Sierra Leone.