Theodore Dwight Weld

Theodore Dwight Weld (1803–1895), the author of American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, was an American abolitionist. He was born in Hampton, Connecticut, where he lived until 1825 when his family moved to upstate New York. He entered Hamilton College, where he became the disciple of Charles Finney, a famous evangelist.

References

• Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Grimke and Sarah Grimke, 1822-1844: Vols. 1 & 2, ISBN 0-8446-1055-0
• Robert H. Abzug, Passionate Liberator: Theodore Dwight Weld & the Dilemma of Reform (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980) ISBN 0195030613
• Robert K. Nelson, "'The forgetfulness of sex': Devotion and Desire in the Courtship Letters of Angelina Grimké and Theodore Dwight Weld," Journal of Social History 37 (Spring 2004): 663-679.