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'''Richard Dillingham''', ([[June 18]], [[1823]] - [[June 30]], [[1850]]), was a [[Religious Society of Friends|Quaker]] school teacher from Peru Township in what is now [[Morrow County, Ohio]], who was arrested in [[Tennessee]] on [[December 5]], [[1848]], while aiding the attempted escape of three slaves. Tried [[April 12]], [[1849]], he was sentenced to three years in the Tennessee State Penitentiary in [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]], where he died of [[cholera]]. He was celebrated as a [[martyr]] to the [[abolitionist]] cause by novelist [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]], fellow Quaker [[Levi Coffin]] and the poet [[John Greenleaf Whittier]], who wrote the poem ''The Cross'' in Dillingham's honor.
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