Abolitionist, born in Hampton, Connecticut, USA. After attending Hamilton College and the Oneida Institute, which stressed manual labour in education, he was influenced by Presbyterian evangelist Charles Grandison Finney to devote himself to promoting reforms, and he went to study at the Lane Seminary in Cincinnati (1834). For about 10 years thereafter, as an ardent abolitionist, he gave forceful lectures, trained workers for the American Anti-Slavery Society, and wrote influential pamphlets, although, being very retiring, he permitted nothing to be published under his own name. He was an adviser to an anti-slavery bloc in Congress in the early 1840s, and recruited prominent people to abolitionism. He and his wife later opened two schools in New Jersey that stressed the importance of manual labour, and many abolitionists' children went there. After the Civil War he became a crusader for women's rights.
Theodore Dwight Weld (November 23, 1803 – February 3, 1895), the author of American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, was an evangelical American abolitionist. He is the son of Ludovicus Weld and Elizabeth Clark, and the brother of Ezra Greenleaf Weld, a famous daguerreotype photographer. Weld was influenced by Charles Stuart, a retired British army officer who urged Weld to enlist in the cause of black emancipation. While a student at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Weld became a leader of the "Lane Rebels." When the school's board of directors, including president Lyman Beecher, tried to prohibit the students from supporting abolitionism, Weld and a group of students left the seminary and were accepted by Oberlin College.
After 1830 he became one of the leaders of the antislavery movement working with Arthur Tappan and Lewis Tappan, New York philanthropists, James G. In 1839, he co-wrote with Angelina and her sister, abolitionist Sarah Moore Grimké American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, on which Harriet Beecher Stowe partly based Uncle Tom's Cabin. Weld used pen names for all of his writings, which many scholars believe to be the reason that he is not as well known as other abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison or Arthur Tappan.
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