During the early 1800s until the 1840s, America was in the midst of social turmoil. Women’s right advocators and abolitionists were sprouting throughout the country, ferociously demanding change to the social system that was intact for more than 100 years. Among those who demanded for emancipation and denounced the slavery system, Theodore Dwight Weld was well known for his impasse stance on slavery. Theodore Dwight Weld was a leading architect and participant of the American Abolitionist movement and was heralded the most prominent American antislavery crusader during the pre-Civil War period. (Britannica) Weld was born in Hampton Connecticut in November 23, 1803 as a son of a Congressional minister. Although his father entreated him to follow in his footsteps, Weld was forced to leave Phillips-Andover, a well-known ministry school at the time, due to his failing eyesight. He then joined Hamilton College in New York a few years later at his parents’ requests and was extremely influenced by evangelist Charles Grandison Finney, who conducted regular revivalist meetings near his school. In fact, Weld frequently toured with Finney and developed his oratory skills by …show more content…
(Weld) With his voice failing him in 1837, Weld travelled to New York where he edited antislavery books. He served as an editor of the society’s paper the Emancipator, and contributed periodically to abolitionist papers and articles. In fact, his “Bible against Slavery” summarized the religious arguments for the need to rid slavery and soon served as an arsenal for abolitionist speakers and writers. He wrote the paper utilizing information directly from the southern newspapers that he read so that the south could not rebuke his work to be libel. The work was of such popularity that many claim that it was a platform for the inspiration of Beecher’s Uncle Tom’s