Richmond, Thomas (1796-?)
Richmond, Thomas (1796-?)
United States Senator, a leading man of Chicago, and also a medium. He was author of the book God Dealing with Slavery (1870), which told the story of his psychic influence which, along with that of Henrietta S. Maynard, prevailed upon Abraham Lincoln to abolish slavery.
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