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The American Anti-Slavery Society was founded in 1835 at Oberlin College by Theodore Dwight Weld, Arthur Tappan, and others. In 1839, the Society published “American Slavery As It Is: Testimony ...
In 1838, Grimké married fellow abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, who had initially worried that her "preoccupation" with women's rights would divert attention from the abolitionist cause.
Upstate New York was a hotbed in the 19th century for the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad. Names like Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Gerrit Smith are familiar.
"American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses" is by Theodore and Angelina Weld and Sarah Grimke who compiled reports which were graphic and accurately portrayed how absolute ...
The Grimké Sisters at Work on Theodore Dwight Weld’s ‘American Slavery as It Is’ (1838) Melissa Range. Share. Copy Link. Facebook. ... Founded by abolitionists in 1865, ...
The wives of abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, Confederacy president Jefferson Davis and Union commander Ulysses S. Grant don't fit comfortably between one book's covers. Though they lived during ...
The Peterboro Presbyterian Church threw open its doors 175 years ago this month to some 400 abolitionists, the determined remnants of a larger group driven out of Utica’s Second Presbyterian ...
New England abolitionist Theodore Weld seized upon the idea of writing a book that would use firsthand testimony to introduce naive white Americans to the horrors of slavery.