Christina Mobley is a doctoral candidate in the department of History at Duke University specializing in African, Caribbean, and Atlantic history. She is currently completing dissertation research in Haiti, France, Belgium, and the Democratic Republic of Congo thanks to the support of fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the Social Science Research Council, and the Duke University Graduate School. Her dissertation project, “The Congolese Atlantic: Central Africans in the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804),” examines how enslaved Africans drew on their experiences in Africa to resist chattel slavery in the New World during the most successful slave revolt in history, the Haitian Revolution.