The Letters of George Long Brown. A Yankee Merchant on Florida's Antebellum Frontier, Paperback/***

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 This volume presents over seventy of Brown’s previously unpublished letters to illuminate day-to-day life in pre-Civil War Florida. Publisher: University Press of Florida Illustration(s): 24 b&w illustrations Number of pages: 262 Collection: Contested Boundaries Publication date: 2024 Dimensions: 151 x 229 x 20 Cover type: Paperback Editor(s): Keith L. Huneycutt