“Willoughby has succeeded ably in providing scholars with an excellent analysis of the antebellum cotton marketing network in the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee region—an analysis rich in information but devoid of turgid jargon. Her work is a welcome addition to the literature on the antebellum Southern economy.”
—Mary A. DeCredico, United States Naval Academy
“Lynn Willoughby's study of the Apalachicola cotton trade is a welcome addition to the antebellum history of Florida and to southern economic history.”
—Harry P. Owens, University of Mississippi
“Willoughby’s gracefully presented study of the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee river valley cotton trade has indeed given scholars what she intended: a ‘microcosm of the mechanics of the entire South’s cotton trade.’ Now, in addition to studies of commerce in the larger Gulf ports, we have a very readable study of a smaller cotton trading center complete with its ports and upriver towns.”
—Harriett E. Amos Doss, University of Alabama at Birmingham