Connecticut farmer-turned-abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld (1803-1895) was a central leader of the American Anti-Slavery Society and traveled the country lecturing against slavery.
His work in compiling the Testimony of those who had experienced life in bondage was a major influence on Harriet Beecher Stowe\'s Uncle Tom\'s Cabin..
Connecticut farmer-turned-abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld (1803-1895) was a central leader of the American Anti-Slavery Society and traveled the country lecturing against slavery