Wilson Armistead

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Wilson Armistead

d. 1868

A Quaker businessman from Leeds turned his energy and influence toward the fight against slavery, writing forcefully about the dignity and abilities of Black people at a time of intense prejudice. His best-known book, A Tribute for the Negro, helped make the anti-slavery case to Victorian readers.

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, he was an English businessman, writer, and abolitionist. He came from a Quaker family connected with local manufacturing, and his religious convictions shaped his lifelong concern with social justice.

He became a leading figure in anti-slavery work in Leeds and is especially remembered for writing and editing books and tracts against slavery. His best-known work, A Tribute for the Negro (1848), argued against racist assumptions and defended the moral, intellectual, and religious capacities of people of African descent.

He died on February 18, 1868. Though not a household name today, his writing and organizing show how local activists in Britain helped sustain the wider international campaign against slavery.