In British North America, immediately following the American Revolution, the British also bought the freedom of American slaves who were somehow associated with Empire Loyalists and who were moving mainly to the colonies of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. At the end of the Revolution, New York City still had a lot of loyalist residents and was occupied by British troops. In vacating the city after the Treaty of Paris (through which the Americans say they won their independence and the British say they were granted independence), Sir Guy Carleton refused to surrender the "human property" to the Americans. Instead, he created a registry so that owners of slaves "might eventually be paid for the slaves who were entitled to their freedom". Names of former owners and amounts owed were duly entered. It is suspected that many of these "debts" were never paid.
(maybe she saw a mustang with Arkansas plates) 
