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Baptist Preacher Matthew Gaines, 1840-1900

January 10, 2013 Carma Henry 0

Matthew Gaines, Black senator and Baptist preacher, was born on Aug. 4, 1840, to a slave mother on the plantation of Martin G. Despallier in Pineville, near Alexandria, La. […]

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