Sailors, Caribbean Trade, and National Boundaries in the Late Nineteenth Century

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.”