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“A solid collection of letters that illuminates how a northerner carved out for himself a home and a life in antebellum North Florida. Anyone interested in commercial and social life in the antebellum US, and Florida in particular, would do well to read this volume.” - H-Net “Brown’s letters provide an excellent window onto a wide variety of topics beyond his Florida community and his mercantile activities.” - Journal of American History “An insightful work on the Brown family and antebellum Florida. . . . The book would be welcomed by historians interested in northerners living in the antebellum South and those curious about early Florida state history.” - Journal of Southern History

"""A solid collection of letters that illuminates how a northerner carved out for himself a home and a life in antebellum North Florida. Anyone interested in commercial and social life in the antebellum US, and Florida in particular, would do well to read this volume.""--H-Net ""Brown's letters provide an excellent window onto a wide variety of topics beyond his Florida community and his mercantile activities.""--Journal of American History ""An insightful work on the Brown family and antebellum Florida. . . . The book would be welcomed by historians interested in northerners living in the antebellum South and those curious about early Florida state history.""--Journal of Southern History"

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James M. Denham is professor of history and director of the Lawton M. Chiles Jr. Center for Florida History at Florida Southern College. He is the author or editor of several books, including Fifty Years of Justice: A History of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Keith L. Huneycutt is professor of English at Florida Southern College. Together, they are the coeditors of Echoes from a Distant Frontier: The Brown Sisters' Correspondence from Antebellum Florida.

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