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Upstate’s forgotten abolitionists: Theodore Weld was the ‘most mobbed man in America’
Updated Feb 24, 2021;
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Upstate New York was a hotbed in the 19th century for the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad. Names like Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Gerrit Smith are familiar. But there were also valiant figures from the region, white and Black, who fought for the end of slavery whose names have faded into history.
During this Black History Month, after searching through old newspapers and websites, we take a look back at some of Upstate New York’s forgotten abolitionists.
When he died on Feb. 3, 1895 at Hyde Park, Massachusetts, the life of abolitionist Theodore Weld was remembered beautifully by the “Brooklyn Sun.”