Theodore Dwight Weld (1803-1895) was born in Hampton, Connecticut, and died in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. Weld was a well-known abolitionist, writing several pamphlets on the topic, most notably The Bible Against Slavery (1837) and American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses (1839). In 1853, he became a stockholder in the Raritan Bay Union, a utopian community near Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Weld ran the community's school until 1860, when he left the Raritan Bay Union. In 1864, he moved to Hyde Park, Massachusetts, and taught at a school in Lexington, Massachusetts, run by Diocletian Lewis. In 1867, he left the school and retired from public life.

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