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...
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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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Table of 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).