| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Contested boundaries |
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Contested boundaries.
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| 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) |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed June 14, 2019) |
| Subject |
Brown, George Long -- Correspondence
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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| SUBJECT |
Newnansville (Fla.) -- History
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Alachua County (Fla.) -- History
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| Subject |
Florida -- Alachua County
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Florida -- Newnansville
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Personal correspondence
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Denham, James M., editor
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Huneycutt, Keith L., 1956- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780813057156 |
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0813057159 |
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