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3. Signature. Theodore Dwight Weld (November 23, 1803 – February 3, 1895) was one of the architects of the American abolitionist 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 compendium American Slavery as It Is ...
American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses is a book written by the American abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, his wife Angelina Grimké, and her sister Sarah Grimké, which was published in 1839. [1] [2] A key figure in the abolitionist movement, Weld was a white New Englander.
The American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS; 1833–1870) was an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, had become a prominent abolitionist and was a key leader of this society, who often spoke at its meetings. William Wells Brown, also a freedman, also often spoke at meetings.
Theodore Dwight Weld and Angelina Emily Grimké, both devoted to the abolition movement, wed that evening at the house of Anna R. Frost, the bride's widowed sister. [ 3]: 232 The wedding was carefully planned, [ 4]: 288 and "designed to demonstrate, challenge and irritate". [ 1] Grimké "was getting married in a manner calculated to shock and ...
Signature. 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. At one point she was the best known, or "most notorious," woman in the country. [1]: 100, 104 She and her sister Sarah Moore Grimké were ...
114 acres (46 ha) The Oneida Institute (/ oʊˈnaɪdə / oh-NYE-də) [1] was a short-lived (1827–1843) but highly influential school that was a national leader in the emerging abolitionist movement. It was the most radical school in the country, the first at which black men were just as welcome as whites. "Oneida was the seed of Lane Seminary ...
Theodore Weld's brother. A little-known and unsigned report by a man who "went to the Fugitive Slave Convention, the other day, for the purpose of daguerrotyping" was presumably by him. [46] Theodore Dwight Weld, abolitionist organizer. Brother of Ezra. Samuel Wells. Named to Committee to nominate convention officers. [19]
They were also early activists in the women's rights movement. With Angelina's husband, Theodore Dwight Weld, Sarah and Angelina eventually founded a private school. After discovering that their late brother had had three mixed-race sons with one of his slaves, Sarah and Angelina helped the boys to be educated in the North.