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  AllRefer.com - Theodore Dwight Weld (Social Reformers) - Encyclopedia
While in college he became a disciple of the evangelist Charles G. Finney and was influenced by Charles Stuart, a retired British army officer who urged Weld to enlist in the cause of fl emancipation.
Weld chose Lane Seminary at Cincinnati, Ohio, for the ministerial training of other Finney converts and studied there until the famous antislavery debates he organized (1834) among the students led to his dismissal.
From 1836 to 1840, Weld worked at the New York office of the antislavery society, serving as an editor of the society's paper, the Emancipator, and contributing antislavery articles to newspapers and periodicals.
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 Weld-Grimké Papers
Theodore Dwight Weld, born in Connecticut, was raised near Utica, N.Y. Here he met Charles Stuart, whose financial support permitted Weld to enter Oneida Institute in 1827 to study for the ministry.
Weld returned to Lane Seminary to study in 1833 and organized a debate on slavery which converted a large number of students to the abolitionist cause.
With Weld they preached the sinfulness of slavery and dwelt on emancipation as a revival in benevolence.
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 Biography of THEODORE WELD: Crusader for Freedom--chap. 1
Weld himself recalled how a child of four once came into a room where he was, and, after one glance at him, ran screaming to her mother.
Weld was a prize well worth the taking, for he was influential with the young men of the county, and his strictures upon Finney had induced a goodly number of them to resist conversion.
Weld was well posted on the English situation by reason of his regular correspondence with Charles Stuart, and the Tappans called upon him to explain the status of the British movement to a number of men of antislavery sympathies whom they had summoned to New York.
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 Theodore Dwight Weld   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The consequent rise of numerous local antislavery societies and the controversial activities of William Lloyd Garrison led to the dissolution of the national society in 1840.
Weld also joined with his southern wife, Angelina, and her sister, Sarah Grimké, to write American Slavery as It Is (1839).
In 1841 Weld went to Washington and for two years served as a lobbyist for the insurgents trying to form an antislavery bloc in the Whig party.
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 Theodore Weld - ColdHeatSoldering.net
Theodore Dwight Weld (18031895), the author of American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand...
Theodore Weld was born in Hampton, Connecticut, on 23rd November, 1803...
BURDICK, Theodore Weld, (1836 - 1898) BURDICK, Theodore Weld, a Representative from Iowa; born in Evansburg, Crawford County, Pa...
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 Theodore Dwight Weld
WELD, Theodore Dwight, reformer, born in Hampton, Connecticut, 23 November, 1803.
Weld then became well known as an anti-slavery lecturer, but in 1836 he lost his voice, and was appointed by the American anti-slavery society editor of its books and pamphlets.
Weld on 14 May, 1838, and was afterward associated with him in educational and reformatory work.
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 Theodore Dwight Weld Biography / Biography of Theodore Dwight Weld Biography Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Theodore Dwight Weld (1803-1895) was an American reformer, preacher, and editor.
Theodore Weld was born in Hampton, Conn., on Nov. 23, 1803, the son of a Congregational minister.
Weld toured with Finney's "holy band," leaving for Oneida Institute in 1827 to complete his ministerial studies.
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 Theodore Dwight Weld -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Theodore Dwight Weld (1803–1895), the author of American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (A reformer who favors abolishing slavery) abolitionist.
He was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Hampton, Connecticut) Hampton, Connecticut, where he lived until 1825 when his family moved to upstate (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) New York.
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 (United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879)) William Lloyd Garrison or (United States abolitionist (1786-1865)) Arthur Tappan.
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 weld - definition by dict.die.net
The state of being welded; the joint made by welding.
Scarf weld, a joint made by overlapping, and welding together, the scarfed ends of two pieces.
Welding.] [Probably originally the same word as well to spring up, to gush; perhaps from the Scand.; cf.
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 Theodore Dwight Weld --  Encyclopædia Britannica
While a ministerial student at Lane Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, Weld participated in antislavery debates and led a group of students who withdrew from Lane to enroll at Oberlin (Ohio) College.
As governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997, Republican William F. Weld sought to encourage the state's economic development by reducing taxes and state regulation of businesses.
Born on July 31, 1945, in New York City, William Floyd Weld was educated at Harvard College and Oxford University and received a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1970.
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Weld * Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses was probably the most important antislavery work published before Uncle Tom's Cabin.
In gathering the material he was assisted by his wife, Angelina, and her *sister, Sarah Grimke~ "Those dear souls," he wrote, "spent sit months, averaging more than sit hours a day, in searching through thousands upon thousands of Southern news- papers, marking and cutting out the fasts of slave holding disclosures.
Reader, you are empannelled as a juror to try a plain case and bring in an honest verdict The question at issue is not one of law, but of fact--"What is the actual condition of the slaves in the United States?" A plainer case never went to a jury.
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 Mary Mahan to Theordore Dwight Weld, 21 February 1836
Mary Mahan, wife of first Oberlin College President Asa Mahan, wrote to Theodore Dwight Weld, a former student the Mahans had known at the Lane Theological Seminary, where they had joined together in the antislavery revivals that led to the exodus of the "Lane Rebels" from the school.
Weld, at our Anti Slavery Anniversary at this place, on the first Wednesday of June next; and he must make up his mind to remain with us a week or ten days; it is of great importance that a happy impression be made at this place, the whole state will be effected by it.
Weld to write to me immediately stating whether we can depend upon him, his expences will be defrayed." Here you have his request, I feel that you might do great good there, and hope you may make such arrangements that you can go.
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 Sources on the Anti-Slavery Movement
Weld was a student at the new Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati.
There is also an account, by Weld, of the dispute in his Appeal for funds for Oberlin written in the early 1840s.
Also in 1839 Theodore Dwight Weld, soon to become Angelina Grimké's husband, published Slavery As It Is, a collection of first-person narratives, newspaper notices, and other "testimony" about the South's "peculiar institution." This is also at the University of Virginia.
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 Dwight Theodore Weld - ColdHeatSoldering.net
Biographical information: Theodore Dwight Weld, born in Connecticut, was raised near Utica, N.Y. he met Charles Stuart, whose financial support permitted Weld to enter Oneida Institute in 1827 to study for...
Theodore Dwight Weld (18031895), the author of American Slavery As It Is: Testimony...
Theodore Dwight Weld (1803-1895): Intense religious convictions about the evils of slavery had driven Weld, like Garrison, into the movement.
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 Weld, Theodore Dwight on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Bibliography: See Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Grimké Weld and Sarah Grimké 1822-1844, ed.
'The forgetfulness of sex': devotion and desire in the courtship letters of Angelina Grimke and Theodore Dwight Weld.(Author Abstract)
"The forgetfulness of sex": devotion and desire in the courtship Letters of Angelina Grimke and Theodore Dwight Weld.
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 BELLEVILLE HISTORY
Theodore Dwight Weld, an impassioned orator and organizer in the antislavery cause, moved into a fifteen-room house on a fifty-acre lot along the banks of the Passaic River in 1840.
Weld hoped to regain the use of his voice; it did return in 1841 and he spoke out against slavery at a July 4 rally in Newark.
Theodore Weld was not only a teacher; in 1847 he became the local superintendent of schools.
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 Digital History
It appears that the high infant and child death rate was at least partly a result of a diet lacking sufficient protein, thiamine, niacin, calcium, magnesium, and vitamin D. As a result, slave children often suffered from night blindness, abdominal swellings, swollen muscles, bowed legs, skin lesions, and convulsions.
Theodore Dwight Weld (1803-1892), a leading abolitionist, published American Slavery As It Is to document abuses under slavery.
Reader, you are empaneled as a juror to try a plain case and bring in an honest verdict.
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 Dating in the 20th Century
Angelina replied by acknowledging her own love for him: "I feel, my Theodore, that we are the two halves of one whole, a twain one, two bodies animated by one soul and that the Lord has given us to each other."
Like many early nineteenth century couples, Theodore and Angelina devoted much of their courtship to disclosing their personal faults and dissecting their reasons for marriage.
In his love letters, Theodore listed his flaws and worried that he was not deserving of Angelina's love.
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 Untitled Document
Theodore Dwight Weld wrote a number of accounts regarding the cruel treatment of slaves.
Publishing them under the title American Slavery as it is, Weld tried to appeal to the emotions of all human beings.
Barely a day went by, according to Weld, where he did not witness such a flogging.
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 Theodore Dwight Weld
and was influenced by Charles Stuart, a retired British army officer who urged Weld to enlist in the cause of fl emancipation.
From 1836 to 1840, Weld worked at the New York office of the antislavery society, serving as an editor of the society's paper, the
Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Grimké Weld and Sarah Grimké 1822–1844,
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 Livid's Lividict - Weld   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
> weld.ed, weld.ing, welds 1 焊接; 熔接 (金属) 2 聚集; 结合
[1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Weld \Weld\ (w[e^]ld), v.
[1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Weld \Weld\ (w[e^]ld), n.
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 Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
In the 18th and early 19th centuries, there were a few voices calling for the end of slavery, but the call for the compulsory abolition of slavery fell on fertile ground only with the religious revival's moral urgency to end sinful practices in the North of the 1820s.
The abolitionist movement reached the crusading stage in the 1830 under the leadership of Theodore Dwight Weld, "the most mobbed man" in America, the brothers Arthur and Lewis Tappan, and William Lloyd Garrison.
Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke Weld, and Theodore Weld's American Slavery As It Is (1839), which cataloged horror stories about slavery drawn entirely from accounts in the Southern press, had been an instant best seller and touched a raw moral nerve in the country.
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 Search Results for Dwight - Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 34th president of the United States (1953–61), who had been supreme commander of the Allied forces in western Europe during World War II.
Davis, Dwight F. tennis player best known as the donor of the Davis Cup (properly the International Lawn Tennis Challenge Trophy) for competition among teams representing various nations.
Organization dedicated to the legacy of the thirty-fourth President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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 Abolitionists Opposing Slavery and Tobacco
The Methodists' error of postponing repentance on slavery, until it became impossible, was then known, as cited by Rev. William Goodell, Slavery and Anti-Slavery (1852), p 144.
Weld, Theodore Dwight, Rev. (1803-1895), The Bible Against Slavery: An Inquiry Into the Patriarchal and Mosaic Systems on the Subject of Human Rights, 1st ed (1837), 4th ed (New York, American Anti-Slavery Society, 1838, reprinted, Westport, Conn: Negro Universities Press, 1970)
Weld, Theodore Dwight, Rev., American Slavery As It Is: The Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses (New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839)
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 Courtship in Early America
A hundred twenty-nine years later, in l838, another couple began their courtship.
Between l708/9, when Samuel Gerrish courted Mary Sewall, and l835, when Theodore Weld courted Angelina Grimke, the rituals of courtship underwent profound changes.
Parental influence and involvement in the selection of their children's marriage partner visibly declined.
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 W3Dictionary.com - Online Dictionary - Definition of WELD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
{Welding}.] [Probably originally the same word as well to
to weld, uppv["a]lla to boil up, to spring up, Dan.
{Scarf weld}, a joint made by overlapping, and welding
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 Theodore Dwight Weld, 1803-1895. American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses.
        Communications may be addressed to Theodore D. Weld, 143 Nassau-street, New York.
Twenty-seven hundred thousand free born citizens of the U. in slavery, 7: Tender mercies of slaveholders, 8: Abominations of slavery, 9: Character of the testimony, 9-10.
Dwight P. Janes, a member of the Second Congregational Church in the city of New London, in a recent letter, says;
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 The Antislavery Alliance of Gerrit Smith and Beriah Green - New York History Net
Given to the University in 1928 by Gerrit Smith Miller, a grandson, the collection reveals that the abolition of slavery dominated the Madison County philanthropist's reform interests from the mid-1830s to the Civil War.
Of Gerrit Smith's numerous antislavery correspondents, including such prominent reformers as William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and Theodore Dwight Weld, none maintained a more regular and extensive epistolary relationship than Beriah Green, upstate New York's most radical and complex abolitionist.
As with Timothy Dwight Weld and Angelina Grimke, concern for the plight of the slave had brought these two disparate personalities together and set the orbits of their lives into intersecting and dependent patterns.
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 7. The United States: Federalist Era through 1877
Weld, Theodore Dwight, Angelina Grimké, and Sarah Grimké.
Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Grimké, and Sarah Grimké, 1822-1844.
Edited by Gilbert H. Barnes and Dwight L. Dumond.
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