The Letters of George Long Brown: A Yankee Merchant on Florida's Antebellum Frontier

Book Overview

Previously unpublished letters offering a view of everyday life in north Florida before the Civil War

In 1840, twenty-three-year-old George Long Brown migrated from New Hampshire to north Florida, a region just emerging from the devastating effects of the Second Seminole War. This volume presents over seventy of Brown's previously unpublished letters to illuminate day-to-day life in pre-Civil War Florida.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813080630
• ISBN13: 9780813080635
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"