Sailors, Caribbean Trade, and National Boundaries in the Late Nineteenth Century
Kevin Grubbs is a doctoral candidate and discusses his work on 19th century coastal work in the Gulf of Mexico. His paper was the winner of the Clark G. Reynolds Prize for the best student paper presented at this year's NASOH Conference
Kevin Grubbs is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern Mississippi. His dissertation, entitled “Forgotten Goods: Sailors, Caribbean Trade, and National Boundaries in the Late Nineteenth Century,” analyzes the impact of sailors on the development of community and capitalism along the Gulf Coast. He has also been published in the Journal of Mississippi History on runaway slaves and the interstate slave trade. Previous conference papers include “No Other Means of Prevention: Smuggling and Caribbean Relations in the Postbellum South” and “Crime on the Margin: The Limits of Authority in Caribbean Port Cities.”
