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A Slave, Ambassador and City Doctor.

This paper was prepared after several interviews had been obtained with the 3ubject of this sketch.

	Dr. George Washingtin Buckner, tall, lean, whitehaired, genial and alert, answered the call of 1~.is door bell. Although anxious to oblige the writer and willing to grant an interview, the life of a city doctor 1$ filled with anxious solicitation for others and he is always expecting a summons to the bedside of a patient or a prof essional interview has been slated.

	Dr. Buckner is no exception and our interviews were often dis-. turbed by the jingle of the door bell or a telephone call.

	Dr. Buckner‘s conversation lead in ever widening circles, away from the topic under discussion when the events of his own life were diseuse-. zed, but he is a fluent speaker and a student of psychology. Psychology

as that philosophy relates to the mental and bodily tendencies of the

sub ect~
African race has long since become one of the major	with which

tiis unusual man struggles. ‚ “Why is the negro?‘~ is one of his deepest concerns.

	Dr. Buckner‘s first recollections center within a slave cabin in Kentucky. The cabin was the home of his steps-father, his invalid mother and several children. The cabin was of the crudest construction, its only windows being merely holes in the cabin wall with crude bark shutters arranged to keep out w snow and rain. The furnishings of this home consisted of a wood bedstead upon which a rough straw bed and patchwork wuilts provided meager comforts for the invalid mother. A straw bed that could be pushed under the bed-stead tlirougb. the day was pulled into the middle of the cabin at night and the wearied children were put to bed by the impatient step-father.

	The parents were slaves and served a master not wealthy enough to