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

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 This volume presents over seventy of Brown’s previously unpublished letters to illuminate day-to-day life in pre-Civil War Florida.

• | Author: James M. Denham, Keith L. Huneycutt
• | Publisher: University Press of Florida
• | Publication Date: May 14, 2024
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780813080635
• | ISBN-10: 0813080630