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The letters of George Long Brown : a Yankee merchant on Florida's antebellum frontier / edited by James M. Denham and Keith L. Huneycutt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Denham, James M.
- Series:
- Contested boundaries.
- Contested boundaries
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brown, George Long--Correspondence.
- Brown, George Long.
- Newnansville (Fla.)--History.
- Newnansville (Fla.).
- Alachua County (Fla.)--History.
- Alachua County (Fla.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (263 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, [2019]
- Summary:
- This book uses approximately seventy letters written to family members and business associates to recreate the life of George L. Brown, a northern-born merchant who lived in Newnansville, Florida, 1840-1857. Brown participated in this region's transformation from a subsistence and herding economy to a cotton economy in the decade before railroads linked Florida to northern markets.
- Contents:
- "I shall be my own man" (1840-1842)
- "Better to make money as a cracker merchant" (1843-1845)
- "That much & interest credited to you on my ledger"
- "To transform a "Yankee" to a "Southern cracker"" (1846-1849)
- "His face is wreathed in perpetual smiles" (1850-1852)
- "Picking steadily along in my usual way" (1852-1857).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-5715-9
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