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The Abolitionist Who Was Chaplain to Black Civil War Soldiers and Started a College Burned Down by the KKK

Published: Nov. 10, 2022, 8:05 a.m.

George Richardson (1824-1911) was a traveling Methodist preacher who rode on a circuit across the antebellum Midwestern frontier and became increasingly caught up in the abolitionist movement. He became a \u201cstation master\u201d on the Underground Railroad...