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 : University Press of Florida, 2019. ©2019
Description:	1 online resource
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. Personal correspondence.
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.

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).