The letters of George Long Brown : a Yankee merchant on Florida's antebellum frontier /
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 econo...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
[2019]
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| Series: | Contested boundaries.
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813056388 0813056381 |