Wilson Armistead

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Wilson Armistead

d. 1868

A Leeds businessman turned passionate abolitionist, he used his writing and organizing to argue fiercely against slavery and racial prejudice in the mid-19th century.

2 Audiobooks

Calumny Refuted by Facts From Liberia With Extracts From the Inaugural Address of the Coloured President Roberts; an Eloquent Speech of Hilary Teage, a Coloured Senator; and Extracts From a Discourse by H. H. Garnett, a Fugitive Slave, on the Past and Present Condition, and Destiny of the Coloured Race. Presented to the Boston Anti-slavery Bazaar, U.S., By the Author of "A Tribute for the Negro."

Calumny Refuted by Facts From Liberia With Extracts From the Inaugural Address of the Coloured President Roberts; an Eloquent Speech of Hilary Teage, a Coloured Senator; and Extracts From a Discourse by H. H. Garnett, a Fugitive Slave, on the Past and Present Condition, and Destiny of the Coloured Race. Presented to the Boston Anti-slavery Bazaar, U.S., By the Author of "A Tribute for the Negro."

by Wilson Armistead

Tales and Legends of the English Lakes

Tales and Legends of the English Lakes

by Wilson Armistead

About the author

Born in Leeds on August 30, 1819, Wilson Armistead was an English businessman, writer, and abolitionist with Quaker roots. He became closely associated with anti-slavery work in Yorkshire and is remembered as a leading figure in the Leeds Anti-Slavery Association.

Armistead is best known for A Tribute for the Negro (1848), a book that challenged racist ideas and defended the moral, intellectual, and religious capacities of Black people. He also edited and wrote other anti-slavery texts, using print as a practical tool for campaigning as well as persuasion.

He died on February 18, 1868. Though not a household name today, his work stands as part of the wider transatlantic movement that kept public pressure on slavery and supported the cause of abolition.