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Sir Guy noted that nothing could be changed in any Articles that were inconsistent with prior policies or National Honor.

He added that the only mode was to pay for the Negroes, in which case justice was done to all, the former slaves and the owners.

Carleton said that it would be a breach of faith not to honor the British policy of liberty to the Negro and declared that if removing them proved to be an infraction of the treaty, then compensation would have to be paid by the British government.

To provide for such a contingency, he had a register kept of all Negroes who left, called the Book of Negroes, entering their names, ages, occupations, and names of their former masters.

The Americans agreed to this, but as far as can be determined, the Crown never paid compensation.

The British transported about 3, 000 freedmen and other Loyalists to Nova Scotia for resettlement.

As the colony struggled, some of the freedmen later chose in the early 1790s to go to Freetown, Sierra Leone, where the British set up a new colony, which included the Black Poor from London.