Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History
Benson Lossing, Ed.

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Weld, Theodore Dwight 1803-1895

Reformer; born in Hampton, Conn., Nov. 23, 1803; received a good education; was an abolitionist lecturer in 1833-36; became editor of the books and pamphlets of the American Anti-slavery Society in the latter year. In 1854 he founded a school for both white and negro children at Eagleswood, N. J. His publications include The power of Congress over the District of Columbia; The Bible against slavery; American slavery as it is, or the testimony of a thousand witnesses (said to have suggested the writing of Uncle Tom's cabin to Harriet Beecher Stowe); and Slavery and the internal slave-trade in the United States. He died in Hyde Park, Mass., Feb. 3, 1895.