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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Denham, James M. (Editor ), Huneycutt, Keith L., 1956- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2019.
Colección:Contested boundaries.
Temas:
Brown, George Long > Correspondence.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Newnansville (Fla.) > History.
Alachua County (Fla.) > History.
Florida > Alachua County
Florida > Newnansville
History
Personal correspondence
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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).

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