author
Edward Carbery
A little-known 19th-century figure, he is chiefly remembered for supplying material for a controversial book promoting emigration to British Guiana. Surviving records suggest he acted as an agent for the Immigration Society of British Guiana and was also a proprietor in the colony.
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Inducements to the Colored People of the United States to Emigrate to British Guiana
by Richard Hildreth, Edward Carbery
About the author
Edward Carbery appears to have been a 19th-century writer or contributor connected to British Guiana rather than a widely documented literary author. The clearest trace of his work today is Inducements to the Colored People of the United States to Emigrate to British Guiana (1840), a publication described by library and catalog records as being compiled from statements and documents he furnished.
Those records identify him as an agent of the Immigration Society of British Guiana and a proprietor in the colony. Because biographical information about him is sparse in the sources available online, much of his personal life remains uncertain, but his name survives through this publication and its place in the history of 19th-century migration and colonization.
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