The letters of George Long Brown : a Yankee merchant on Florida's antebellum frontier /

The letters of George Long Brown : a Yankee merchant on Florida's antebellum frontier /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2019]
Description:	xi, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Contested boundaries Contested boundaries.
Subject:	Brown, George Long -- Correspondence. Newnansville (Fla.) -- History. Alachua County (Fla.) -- History. Florida -- Alachua County. Florida -- Newnansville. History. Records and correspondence.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11922259

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Other authors / contributors:	Denham, James M., editor. Huneycutt, Keith L., 1956- editor.
ISBN:	9780813056388 0813056381
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Summary:	In 1840, twenty-three-year-old George Long Brown migrated from New Hampshire to north Florida, a region just emerging from the devastating effects of the Second Seminole War. This volume presents over seventy of Brown's previously unpublished letters to illuminate day-to-day life in pre?Civil War Florida.<br> <br> Brown's personal and business correspondence narrates his daily activities and his views on politics, labor practices, slavery, fundamentalist religion, and the local gossip. Having founded a successful mercantile establishment in Newnansville, Brown traveled the region as far as Savannah and Charleston, purchasing sea island cotton and other goods from plantations. He also bartered with locals and circulated among the judges, lawyers, and politicians of Alachua County.<br> <br> The Letters of George Long Brown provides an important eyewitness view of north Florida's transformation from a subsistence and herding community to a market economy based on cotton, timber, and other crops, showing that these changes came about in part due to an increased reliance on slavery. Brown's letters offer the first social and economic history of one of the most important yet little-known frontiers in the antebellum South.<br> <br> A volume in the series Contested Boundaries, edited by Gene Allen Smith.
Physical Description:	xi, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780813056388 0813056381