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Francis Moore

An 18th-century British travel writer, he is best remembered for a detailed account of West Africa that later readers saw as unusually valuable for understanding the region and the slave trade. Very little is known about his life, which gives his surviving work an added sense of rarity.

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Scriptural and Hieroglyphic Observations which were foretold in the years of 1750 & 1792 To which is added a singular account of the emigration of the Jews in 1812

Scriptural and Hieroglyphic Observations which were foretold in the years of 1750 & 1792 To which is added a singular account of the emigration of the Jews in 1812

by Francis Moore

About the author

Francis Moore was a British travel writer from Worcester, England, baptized in 1708 and believed to have died in or after 1756. The main facts that can be confirmed about him are tied closely to his time with the Royal African Company, where he served on the Gambia River.

He became known for Travels into the Inland Parts of Africa, published in 1738. The book drew on his experiences in West Africa and offered European readers one of the period's firsthand English-language accounts of the region, its trade, and local societies.

Because so little personal information survives, Moore is remembered mainly through his writing rather than through a well-documented biography. That surviving work has continued to attract attention from historians for the light it sheds on 18th-century Africa and the Atlantic world.