Author: Christopher Cameron

Christopher Cameron is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is also the founder and past president of the African American Intellectual History Society. He received his BA in History from Keene State College and his MA and PhD in American History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research and teaching interests include early American history, the history of slavery and abolition, and American religious and intellectual history. Cameron is the author of To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement (Kent State University Press, 2014) and Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism (Northwestern University Press, 2019). Cameron is also the coeditor of New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition (Northwestern University Press, 2018).