The association was active in Leeds, Yorkshire and North America, supplying abolitionist pamphlets to people on the east coast.

[1] The Association organised meetings that hosted notable abolitionists and speakers including Harriet Beecher Stowe and Samuel Ringgold Ward.

[8] The title entrants had to write to was "On the sinfulness of slavery, the mode of terminating it and the benefits that would result therefrom".

[10] On 10 December 1855 a meeting was held at Belgrave Chapel, where the speakers included Parker Pillsbury, an American abolitionist.

[12] In 1857 the Association established the Leeds Young Men's Anti-Slavery Society, of which Armistead was Honourable Secretary.