Wilson Armistead

Born on August 30, 1819, in Leeds, he was an English businessman, writer, and committed abolitionist. He became a leading figure in the Leeds Anti-Slavery Association and is remembered for using both organizing and publishing to support the anti-slavery movement.

His best-known work, A Tribute for the Negro (1848), gathered material on slavery and the struggle against it. Contemporary summaries of his life also note that he edited and wrote other anti-slavery texts, showing how central this cause was to his public work.

He died on February 18, 1868. Though not a household name today, he stands out as one of the many nineteenth-century reformers who used books, pamphlets, and civic action to argue against slavery.