George Long Brown was no Harriet Beecher Stowe. I mean, he bought slaves when he settled in Florida after emigrating from New England, and Stowe was a fervent abolitionist. But like her, he left us a document of Florida frontier life in the 1800s — and Newnansville, Florida, was indeed frontier back then. I’m joined by Keith Huneycutt, professor of English at Florida Southern College and editor of The Letters of George Long Brown, to discuss the book and Brown’s life. Further reading and full transcript at www.FloridaBookClub.com.
