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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Otros Autores: Huneycutt, Keith L., 1956- (Editor ), Denham, James M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Brown, George Long > Correspondence.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Florida > Newnansville.
Florida > Alachua County.
Alachua County (Fla.) > History.
Newnansville (Fla.) > History.
Personal correspondence.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a "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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