"American Slavery As It Is" is a book composed of first-hand accounts of slavery and its horrors. The work focuses on the afflictions that slaves faced, covering their diet, clothing, housing, and working conditions. Harriet Beecher Stowe used "American Slavery As It Is" as the direct inspiration for her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Theodore Dwight Weld (1803 – 1895) was one of the architects of the American abolitionist movement during its formative years from 1830 through 1844, playing a role as writer, editor, speaker, and organizer.