He makes clear, too, just how extensively Dickens used the pamphlet of
Theodore Dwight Weld, a well-known abolitionist, though without acknowledgement.
Eventually, after her excommunication for marrying outside of the Quaker fold, Grimke, Sarah, and Angelina's husband
Theodore Dwight Weld (1803-95) would adopt a non-institutional "religion of humanity."
Theodore Dwight Weld and the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Letters of
Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Grimke Weld and Sarah Grimke 1822-1844.
When Angelina Grimke married the abolitionist and reformer
Theodore Dwight Weld in 1838 and settled in Fort Lee, New Jersey, with her husband and sister, the two sisters retired from public speaking.
To probe these dynamics, Hempton samples nine individuals--George Eliot, Francis Newman,
Theodore Dwight Weld, Sarah Grimke, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Vincent van Gogh, Edmund Gosse, and James Baldwin--and provides both a thumbnail religious biography and an account of each one's entrance into and exit from the evangelical fold.
Thus, in 1837
Theodore Dwight Weld published The Bible Against Slavery.
Augustus went first to Ohio in 1833, inspired by his classmate
Theodore Dwight Weld, so that he could attend Lane Seminary in Cincinnati.
Theodore Dwight Weld no doubt had the Grimke sisters' arguments about men's and women's private relationships firmly in mind when he began to court Angelina in February 1838.
Like
Theodore Dwight Weld's American Slavery As It Is (1839), they presented the daily horrors of chattel slavery to citizens of the free states unsure of the true nature of the institution.
The labors of
Theodore Dwight Weld, a Finney convert who until Barnes's discoveries was practically unknown, struck Barnes as having been far more effective in promoting antislavery than those of William Lloyd Garrison, the presumed leader of the movement.
Theodore Dwight Weld, having redirected his zeal from the temperance movement to the antislavery movement, was now selecting and training agents for the American Anti-Slavery Society.