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Theodore Dwight Weld ( American Abolitionist . He was born in Hampton, Connecticut , where he lived until 1825 when his family moved to upstate New York . He entered Hamilton College , where he became the disciple of Charles Finney , a famous evangelist. Weld was influenced by Charles Stuart, a retired British army officer who urged Weld to enlist in the cause of black emancipation. While studying for the ministry at Oneida Institute he traveled about lecturing on the virtues of manual labor, temperance, and moral reform. While a student at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati , Weld became a leader of the "Lane Rebels." This group of students held a series of slavery debates over 18 days in 1834 that divided the community. When the school's board of directors, including president Lyman Beecher , tried to prohibit the students from supporting abolitionism, Weld and a group of students left the seminary and were accepted by Oberlin College . After 1830 he became one of the leaders of the antislavery movement working with Arthur Tappan and Lewis Tappan , New York philanthropists, James G. Birney , Gamaliel Bailey , Angelina Grimké , and Sarah Grimké . He married partly based '' Uncle Tom's Cabin ''. Weld used pen names for all of his writings, which many scholars believe to be the reason that he is not as well known as other abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison or Arthur Tappan . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL SOURCES REFERENCES
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