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

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Imprint:Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2019.
©2019
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Contested boundaries
Contested boundaries.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12400662
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Other authors / contributors:Denham, James M., editor.
Huneycutt, Keith L., 1956- editor.
ISBN:9780813057156
0813057159
9780813056388
0813056381
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed June 14, 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.

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