searching for the best break the black forties could afford them came these ever proud world renowned rowdy roving men with a firmness and a purpose that so many did dismiss sailed these huddled human ballasts on their stinking coffin ships from the prison of their lonely hearts they labored long and hard a poor needy down trodden rough and ready sod working 18 hour days for the b a c intelligent respectable but made of modest means with an independent spirit so full of hopes and dreams opportunity denied them in a doomed and starving land came these openhearted kindly spirits of a truly threatened man