George and Ann RichardsCivil War Era Center

Adam Xavier McNeil is a PhD Candidate in Early African American Women’s History at Rutgers University. During his fellowship year, McNeil will complete his dissertation “Contested Liberty: Fugitive Women & the Shadow of Re-Enslavement and Displacement in Revolutionary Virginia.” McNeil’s scholarship has been supported by the College of William and Mary’s Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, the University of Michigan’s William L. Clements Library, the American Philosophical Society’s David Center for the American Revolution, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s John D. Rockefeller Library, the University of Pennsylvania’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies, and the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.