Gabriel Rivera Cotto
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Gabriel J. Rivera Cotto is a Combined Ph.D. student in History and African American Studies. His research focuses on the history of slavery in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico. He is particularly interested in enslaved people's resistance and inter-Caribbean networks of information and movement. More widely, he is interested in Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latin American History, Digital Humanities, and Caribbean literature. Gabriel received his B.A. in History with a Minor in French from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras.