How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this life and love and strife and failure, – is it the twilight of nightfall or the flush of some faint-dawning day? The answer lies in each of us. For somewhere in your past … somewhere some 100 years ago?there rose from the smoldering ashes of slavery?a proud and humble family who suffered and struggled with life. A family who found the strength to endure all the indignities of life in America, and that family had the hope for a taste of her bounties in the future.