2025-01-27

Unfulfilled Promises, Unfaltering People

1783: Unfulfilled Promises, Unfaltering People is the third video in the 1783 Collection and tells the story of the resilience of the Black Loyalist community who built pit houses—literal holes in the ground— to survive. The song played by Juno nominated saxophonist, Jesse Ryan, and featured in this video is It is Well With My Soul by Horatio G. Spafford. Narrated by Brainerd Blyden-Tayler.

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