Theodore Dwight Weld
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About
Nineteenth-century abolitionist, public speaker, and author. He is perhaps best remembered for co-writing the 1839 work American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses.
Before Fame
During his time at Hamilton College, he became a follower of evangelical preacher Charles Finney. In 1833, he helped establish the Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Trivia
During the 1830s and early 1840s, he edited an abolitionist publication called The Emancipator.
Family Life
He married women's suffragist and fellow abolitionist Angelina Grimke in 1838.
Associated With
Author Harriet Beecher Stowe based her famous novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, on Weld's American Slavery As It Is.
