Theodore Dwight Weld (November 23, 1803 – February 3, 1895) was one of the architects of the American

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movement during its formative years from 1830 to 1844, playing a role as writer, editor, speaker, and organizer. He is best known for his co-authorship of the authoritative

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'' American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses'', published in 1839.

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partly based ''

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'' on Weld's text; the latter is regarded as second only to the former in its influence on the antislavery movement. Weld remained dedicated to the abolitionist movement until slavery was ended by the

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, the father of

, Weld was "as eloquent as an angel, and as powerful as thunder." His words were "logic on fire". Weld "is totally unknown to most Americans".

Early life

Born in

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, the son and grandson of Congregational ministers, at age 14 Weld took over his father's farm near Hartford, Connecticut, to earn money to study at

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, attending from 1820 to 1822, when failing eyesight caused him to leave. After a doctor urged him to travel, he started an itinerant lecture series on

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, traveling for three years throughout the United States, including the South, where he saw

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first-hand. In 1825 Weld moved with his family to

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, in

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College education

Weld then studied at

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. The famous

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was based in Oneida County, and while a student Weld must have attended some of Finney's many

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, for he became Finney's disciple. In Utica, intellectual capital of western New York, center of abolitionism, and

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of Oneida County, he met and became a good friend of Charles Stuart, an early abolitionist, who at that time (1822–1829) was head of the

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. They spent several years as members of Finney's "holy band" before he decided to become a preacher and in 1827 entered the

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, after first staying at the farmhouse of founder

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, working in exchange for instruction. While at the Oneida Institute, he would spend two weeks at a time traveling about lecturing on the virtues of manual labor,

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, and moral reform. "Weld...had both the stamina and charisma to hold listeners spellbound for three hours." As a result, by 1831 he had become a "well known citizen" of Oneida County, according to a letter of

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published in the ''

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''. Weld was described thus by

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, "Weld is destined to be one of the great men not of America merely, but of the world. His mind is full of strength, proportion, beauty, and majesty. ...

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there is indubitable evidence of intellectual grandeur and moral power." In his reminiscences of that period Dr. Beecher observed: In a completely different forum, William Garrison said that in a convention of antislavery "agents", who travelled from town to town giving abolitionist lectures and setting up new local anti-slavery societies, "Weld was the central luminary around which they all revolved". His future wife

Angelina Grimké Angelina Emily Grimké Weld (February 20, 1805 – October 26, 1879) was an American abolitionist, political activist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. She and her sister Sarah Moore Grimké were c ...

said in 1836, when she first laid eyes on him and heard him speak for two hours on "What is slavery?", that "I never heard so grand & beautiful an exposition of the dignity & nobility of man in my life".

Manual labor and education agent

His reputation as a speaker had reached New York, and in 1831, at the age of 28, Weld was called there by the philanthropists

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and

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. He declined their offer of a ministerial position, saying he felt himself unprepared. Since he was "a living, breathing, and eloquently-speaking exhibit of the results of manual-labor-with-study," the brothers then created, so as to employ Weld, the Society for Promoting Manual Labor in Literary Institutions on-religious schools which promptly hired him as its "general agent" and sent him on a factfinding and speaking tour. (The Society never carried out any activities except hiring Weld, hosting some of his lectures, and publishing his report.) Weld carried out this commission during the calendar year 1832. His 100-page report on his activities, accompanied by 20 pages of letters received, is dated January 10, 1833. It received a review of 21 pages in the '' Quarterly Christian Spectator,'' and an abridgement was soon published. In it he states that "In prosecuting the business of my agency, I have traveled during the year four thousand five hundred and seventy-five miles ,364 km in public conveyances

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2,630 ,230 km on horseback, 1,800 ,900 km on foot, 145 33 km I have made two hundred and thirty-six public addresses." He was nearly killed when a high river swept away the coach he was in. During his year as a manual labor agent, Weld scouted land, found the location for, and recruited the faculty for the

Lane Theological Seminary Lane Seminary, sometimes called Cincinnati Lane Seminary, and later renamed Lane Theological Seminary, was a Presbyterian theological college that operated from 1829 to 1932 in Walnut Hills, Ohio, today a neighborhood in Cincinnati. Its campus ...

, in

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. He enrolled there as a student in 1833, although he was informally the head, to the point of telling the trustees whom to hire. He had this power because on his recommendation the Tappans' subventions would continue, or go elsewhere (as they soon did, to Oberlin).

Abolitionist

Some of his travel was in

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. What he saw there, together with what he read in

's newspaper The Liberator (1831) and book ''Thoughts on African Colonization'' (1832), turned him into a committed

. He first worked, in 1833, at convincing the other students at Lane that immediatism, ending slavery completely and immediately, was the only solution and what God wanted. Successful, he next, with the Tappans' connivance, sought to bring immediatism to a larger audience. He announced that the public was invited to a series of public debates, over 18 evenings in February 1834, on abolition versus colonization. In fact, the debates were not debates at all, as no one spoke in favor of colonization. They were instead presentations of the horrors of American slavery, together with an exposé of the inadequacy of the

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's project of helping free blacks migrate to Africa and its intent to preserve, rather than eliminate, slavery. At the end, the audience's views were highly supportive of immediate abolition. The debates were then local events. However, during the Seminary's summer vacation of 1834, some of the students started teaching classes for and in other ways working to help the 1500 free African Americans of Cincinnati, with whom the students mixed freely. Given the pro-slavery sentiment in Cincinnati, many found his behavior unacceptable. After rumored threats of violence against the Seminary, the trustees passed rules abolishing the seminary's colonization and abolition societies and forbidding any further discussion of slavery, even at mealtimes. Weld was threatened with expulsion. A professor was fired. What happened was the mass resignation of almost all of Lane's student body, along with a sympathetic trustee,

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. Later known as the

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, they enrolled at the new

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, insisting as conditions of their enrollment that they be free to discuss any topic (

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), that Oberlin admit blacks on the same basis as whites, and that the trustees not be able to fire faculty for any or no reason. The fired professor was hired by Oberlin, and Mahan became its first president. Weld declined an appointment at Oberlin as professor of theology, directing Shipperd to Charles Finney. Instead, he took a position as agent of the

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for Ohio. "He has, with characteristic disinterestedness, accepted this agency at one half the salary he was offered by another institution."

Anti-slavery activity

Starting in 1834, Weld was an agent for the

, recruiting and training people to work for the cause, making converts of

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, and

Henry Ward Beecher Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887) was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the Abolitionism, abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery ...

. Weld became one of the leaders of the antislavery movement, working with the Tappan brothers, New York philanthropists

and

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, and the

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. In 1836, Weld discontinued lecturing when he lost his voice, and was appointed editor of its books and pamphlets by the

. In 1836–1840 Weld worked as the editor of '' The Emancipator''. In 1838, Weld married

; see The abolitionist Weld–Grimké wedding. He was a strong abolitionist and women's rights advocate; at the marriage there were two ministers, one white and one black. He renounced any power or legal authority over his wife, other than that produced by love. Two former slaves of the Grimkés' father were among the guests. He then retired to a farm in

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, where he, his wife, and her sister co-wrote the very influential 1839 book '' American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses''. Angelina's unmarried older sister Sarah resided with them for many years. In June 1840 the

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in London denied seats to

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and other women, mobilizing them to fight for women's rights. This led to a split in the U.S. abolitionist movement between the nonviolent (but wanting it immediately) "moral suasion" of

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and his

, which linked abolition with women's rights, and Weld, the Tappan brothers and other "pragmatic" (gradualist) abolitionists, who formed the

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(AFASS) and entered politics through the anti-slavery Liberty Party (ancestor of the

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and

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), founded by James Birney, their U.S. presidential candidate in 1840 and 1844, who also founded the

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. In 1841–1843, Weld relocated to Washington, D.C., to direct the national campaign for sending antislavery petitions to Congress. He assisted

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when

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tried him for reading petitions in violation of the

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, which stated that slavery could not be discussed in Congress. Having demonstrated the value of an antislavery lobby in Washington, Weld returned to private life, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives directing schools and teaching in New Jersey and Massachusetts. According to the ''

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'':

Many historians regard Weld as the most important figure in the abolitionist movement, surpassing even
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, but his passion for anonymity long made him an unknown figure in American history.

Schools

In 1854, Weld established a school of the

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. The school accepted students of all races and sexes. In 1864 he moved to

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, where he helped open another school, this one in

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, dedicated to the same principles. Here, Weld had "charge of Conversation, Composition, and English Literature."

Family

Weld was the son of Ludovicus Weld and Elizabeth Clark Weld. His brother

Ezra Greenleaf Weld Ezra Greenleaf Weld (October 26, 1801 – October 14, 1874), often known simply as "Greenleaf", was a photographer and an operator of a daguerreotype studio in Cazenovia, New York. He and his family were involved with the abolitionist movement ...

, a famous

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photographer, was also involved with the abolitionist movement. A member of the Weld family of

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, Weld shares a common ancestry with

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Tuesday Weld Tuesday Weld (born Susan Ker Weld; August 27, 1943) is an American actress and model. She began acting as a child and progressed to mature roles in the late 1950s. She won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1960. Over t ...

, and others. This branch of the family never achieved the wealth of their

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-based kin. Weld died at his home in Hyde Park, Massachusetts on February 3, 1895.

Writings

* * * * Weld received a published reply. *
American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
' (with the

; 1839) * An excerpt, "Slavery a System of Inherent Cruelty", appeared on pp. 127–140 of the Boston, 1850, edition of the
''Narrative of Sojourner Truth : a northern slave, emancipated from bodily servitude by the state of New York, in 1828 : with a portrait.
*

Archival material

Papers of Weld and the Grimké sisters are at the Clements Library,

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. Additional letters were published in the two volume set "Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Grimké Weld and Sarah Grimke 1822-1844" published by The American Historical Association/Albert J. Beveridge Memorial Fund and held in the Hampton Room special collections at the Northampton Forbes Library, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. The original letters were held at the time of publication by Dr. L.D.H. Weld, Smith Collection at Syracuse University, Garrison collection at the Boston Public Library, Oberlin College, the Archaeological and Historical Society of Ohio, and in the James Gillespie Birney and Weld collections at the Library of Congress

Legacy

*Another Lane Rebel, Huntington Lyman, named his son Theodore Weld Lyman (born 1840) for Weld.

References

Notes

External links

* *
Columbia 2003 Encyclopedia Article

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