End of Seven Years War — Black Veterans Receive No Benefits

The Treaty of Paris (1763) ended the Seven Years War. Black men who had served in colonial militias — some as free men, many as enslaved people whose enslavers collected their military pay — received none of the land grants or pension benefits extended to white veterans. Some enslaved men who had been promised freedom for service found their enslavers unwilling to honor the commitment. Their service was erased from official records; their names appear only in scattered muster rolls and pension d