Adam McNeil is a History PhD student at Rutgers University-New Brunswick focusing on 17th and 18th Century Black Women’s histories of slavery. Secondarily, McNeil focuses on Black Appalachian histories of slavery and freedom. Adam earned his undergraduate degree from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) where he graduated in 2015 with B.S. in History and earned an MA in History from Simmons University in 2018.