Happy Birthday Theodore Weld


Theodore Dwight Weld, the architect of the American abolitionist movement during its formative years (1830-1844) was born November 23, 1803. He was a writer, editor, speaker, and organizer and is best known for his co-authorship of the authoritative American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, published in 1839. 

In 1834 he organized the first public debates on the divisive topic of slavery at Lane Seminary School in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Thomas Alan Taylor as Theodore Weld in Sons & Daughters of Thunder.

“Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart,” said Weld.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's magnum opus Uncle Tom's Cabin was partly based 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 Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865. 

Learn more about his remarkable man by purchasing or streaming the award-winning and Emmy nominated Sons & Daughters of Thunder by Fourth Wall Films.

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