Wilson Armistead, Memoirs of James Logan

ARMISTEAD, Wilson. Memoirs of James Logan; A Distinguished Scholar and Christian Legislator; Founder of the Loganian Library at Philadelphia; Secretary of the Province of Pennsylvania; Chief Justice; Commissioner of Property; and (As President of Council) for Two Years Governor of the Province. Including several of His Letters of those of his Correspondence, Many of Which Now First Printed from the Original Mss. Collated and Arranged the Purpose.

London: Charles Gilpin, 1851. 1st ed. 192 pp. Front Orig. cloth, rebacked with spine laid down.

James Logan, 1674-1751, was a colonial statesman, administrator, and notable book collector. He served as secretary to William Penn and in 1722 he became the 14th Mayor of Philadelphia. He was a founding partner of the College of Philadelphia and was influential in the establishment of the city of Philadelphia. Of particular mention, Philadelphia. During his tenure as mayor, allowed Irish Catholic immigrants to participate in the city's first public mass.

Wilson Armistead, 1819-1868, was a Quaker businessman from Leeds and a tireless anti-slavery campaigner and supporter of the abolitionist movement. A TRIBUTE FOR THE NEGRO, his great work, is an abolitionist text of enduring merit. Armistead's volume, like works by Grégoire, Lavallée, and Mott that preceded it, and Nancy Cunara's NEGRO ANTHOLOGY that would come eighty years later, testifies to the achievements and intellectual capacity of Africans, people of African descent, and the slaves transported from the continent. Excerpts from the above-mentioned notables, and authors such as Ignacio Sancho, James Pennington, Alexander Crummel], William Wells Brown, and Phyllis Wheatley are here, together with a collection of biographical sketches of about 150 important notable historical figures of African descent.

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