Editing Lane Seminary (section)

===Activities in the black community===
"We believe faith without works is dead," Weld wrote to Arthur Tappan in 1834.<ref name=Tappan/> He, Augustus Wattles, and other students created a school out of three rooms, and raised hundreds of dollars to outfit a library and rent classrooms. Classes were run both days and evenings, and the school was soon at capacity. Inspired by [[Prudence Crandall]]'s example, he also set up a school for black women, and Arthur Tappan paid $1,000 ({{inflation|US|1000|1834|fmt=eq}}) for four female teachers to relocate from New York to Cincinnati.<ref name=Williams/>{{rp|170}} As Lewis Tappan put it in his biography of his brother, "[T]he anti-slavery students of Lane Seminary established evening-schools for the adults, and day-schools for the children of the three thousand colored of Cincinnati."<ref name=Arthur/>{{rp|236}}

Weld continued to Tappan:

{{blockquote|We have formed a large and efficient organization for elevating the colored people in Cincinnati—have established a [[Lyceum]] among them, and lecture three or four evenings a week on grammar, geography, arithmetic, natural philosophy, &c. Besides this, an evening free school, for teaching them to read, is in operation every week day evening; and we are about establishing one or two more. We are also getting up a library for circulation among those who can read, and are about establishing a reading room. In addition to this two of our students, one theological and one literary [Augustus Wattles and Marius Robinson<ref name=Abzug>{{cite book
|title=Passionate Liberator. Theodore Dwight Weld and the Dilemma of Reform
|first=Robert H.
|last=Abzug
|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]
|year=1980
|isbn=019502771X}}</ref>{{rp|94}}], have felt so deeply their degradation, and have been so affected by the intense desire to acquire knowledge which they exhibit, that they have taken a dismission from the institution, and commenced a school among the blacks in the city. They expect to teach a year, and them take up their course in the seminary again, when others will no doubt be ready to take their places. The first went down and opened a school, and it was filled the first day, and that mainly with adults, and those nearly grown. For a number of days he rejected from ten to twenty daily, because he could not teach them. This induced the other dear brother to leave his studies and join him. Both are now incessantly occupied.<br /><br />Besides these two day schools, and the evening schools, and the lectures, we have three large Sabbath schools and Bible classes among the colored people. By sections in rotation, and teaching the evening reading schools in the same way, we can perform an immense amount of labor among them, without interference with our studies.<ref name=Tappan>{{cite news
|title=Letter to Arthur Tappan, March 18, 1834
|last=Weld
|via=[[newspapers.com]]
|first=Theodore D.
|authorlink=Theodore D. Weld
|date=April 12, 1834
|newspaper=[[The Liberator (newspaper)|The Liberator]]
|location=Boston, Massachusetts
|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91083151/letter-from-theodore-weld-complete/
|access-date=December 24, 2021
|archive-date=December 24, 2021
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211224165425/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91083151/letter-from-theodore-weld-complete/
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}}</ref>}}