~ix..S1ave Storlea
~istrict #5	~:2. 2~
VanderbU~t~h County
Lauafla Creel
A Slave, Ambassador, and City Doctor.

provide adaquately for their comforts. The mother had become Invalidate t1irou~h the t~k of bearing children each year and being deprived of medical and $urgical attention.

	The master, Mr. Buckner, along with $everal of bis relatives had purchased a large trRct of land in Dreen County, Kentucky and by a custom or tradition as Dr. Euckner rernember$; land owners that owned no slaves were considered “Po‘ White Trash“ and were scarcely recognized as citizens within the stateof Kentucky.

	Another tradition prevailed, that slave children should be present‘.. ed to the master‘s young sons and daughters and become their special property even in childhood. Adherring to that tradition the child, George Washington Buckner became the slave of young “Mars“ Dickie Buck.. zier, and although the two children were nearly the same age the little mulatto boy was obedient to the wishes of the little master. Indeed, the slave child cared for the ~aucasIian boy‘s clothing, polished his boots, put away his toys and was his playmate and companion as well as his slave.

	Sickness and suffering and even death visits alike the just and the unjust, and the loving sympathetic slave boy witnessed the suffering and death of his little white friend. Then grief took possession of the little slave, he could not bear the sight of little Dick‘s toys nor books not clothing. He recalls one harrowing experience after the death of little Dick Buckner. George‘s grandmother was a housekeeper and kit~hê~ maid for the white f~unily.,. She was in the idtohen one late aïternoon preparing the evening meal. The master had taken his f ainily for a visit in the neighborhood and the mulatto child sat on the veranda and recalled, pleasaxiter days. A sudden desire seized him to look into the bed room where little Mars Dickie had lain in the bed. The even~.g