I am a first-year History PhD student at Emory University, focused on Latin American and Caribbean history. I received my BA in History and Spanish, and an MA in Latin American Studies, from the University of Florida. My research interests include slavery, resistance, abolition, emancipation, nationalism, and revolution in the Spanish Caribbean and Atlantic world. My earlier work has examined antislavery and anticolonial alliances in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico through an analysis of what I term the shared rhetoric of liberation linking abolitionist and separatist campaigns on the island and abroad. I aim to expand this work to center the contributions and experiences of enslaved and free Africans and Afro-descendants in the antislavery and anticolonial activism of this time, tracing their continued resistance from earlier colonial periods and across regional contexts to examine the burgeoning Afro-Antillean and Afro-Atlantic diasporic revolutionary consciousness that shaped developments in Puerto Rico and beyond.