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Joseph Corry

Best known for an early 19th-century account of West Africa, this little-documented writer and trader drew on firsthand experience from travels made in 1805 and 1806. His surviving work offers a period view of the Windward Coast, combining observation, commerce, and colonial-era argument in a single volume.

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Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa The religion, character, customs, &c. of the natives; with a system upon which they may be civilized, and a knowledge attained of the interior of this extraordinary quarter of the globe; and upon the natural and commercial resources of the country; made in the years 1805 and 1806; with an appendix, containing a letter to Lord Howick, on the most simple and effectual means of abolishing the slave trade

Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa The religion, character, customs, &c. of the natives; with a system upon which they may be civilized, and a knowledge attained of the interior of this extraordinary quarter of the globe; and upon the natural and commercial resources of the country; made in the years 1805 and 1806; with an appendix, containing a letter to Lord Howick, on the most simple and effectual means of abolishing the slave trade

by Joseph Corry

About the author

Joseph Corry is a little-known historical author associated with Observations upon the Windward Coast of Africa, published in 1807. Available catalog and reference records identify him as a trader, and the book presents itself as based on journeys made in 1805 and 1806 along the West African coast.

Because reliable biographical information on Corry is scarce, not much can be said with confidence about his personal life. What can be confirmed is that his name remains attached to this travel and commercial study of the Windward Coast, a work that has been preserved in library catalogs, Project Gutenberg, and other archival records.

Today, Corry is remembered less as a widely known literary figure than as the author of a rare firsthand account from the early 1800s. Readers approaching his work should keep its historical context in mind, since it reflects the attitudes and assumptions of its time.