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	Interviewer	~ 8a~sie1 S. ~a~y]or~~
	Person interviewed	~. D. B. Gaines
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	Age_~~1175


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	“I was •born in 1863 and am now seventy~.tive years old. You aee~ therefore, that I know nothing experimentally and practically about slavery.

	nI was born in South Carolina in lawrence County, and my father moved away from the old place before I had any recollection. I rmembsr nothing about it. My tather said his master‘ s nana was Matthew Thinter~

	*1 was naaed for my father‘ a master‘ a brother, Dr. Bluford Oaina. My nai~ is Doctor Bluford Gaines. 0f course, I am a doctor but my n~ is Doctor.

	“My father‘ s family moved to Arkansas, in 1882. 8ettled niez Morrilton, Arkansas. I myself cei~ to Little Book, Arkansas, in 1885, October eighth, Worked in the hc~a of white twiilies for ~y board and entered Philander ~nith College October 8 1885, Continued to work with Judge ~nith of the AXkWI8&5 3iprsme Court until t graduated trcin Philander ~aith Collegs. After graduating I taught school and was elected Assistant Principal of the Little Rock Negro High 8chool in 1891. 8erved thrs years. Accuailated sufficient money end went to Ilaharry )~dioal College, Nashville, Tennessee. Graduated there in 1896. Practiced for flys years in the city of Little Rock. Entered perD~nently upon the ministry in 1900.

Was called to the Mcunt Pleasant Baptist Œiurch where I have been pastoring for thirty—nine years the first &inday in next May.