Colonel Buckner H. Payne (1799- June 1, 1883) was an American clergyman, publisher and racist pamphleteer.
Young, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, published a response based on scientific arguments.
[9] Meanwhile, a literate former slave from Georgia, Harrison Berry, dismissed the pamphlet as confused and misguided.
[12] According to his obituaries, Payne predicted the assassination of President James A. Garfield one year before it happened.
[8] He was buried in a lumber square box without screws at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee.