Christopher Cameron

I am a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with research and teaching interests in African American and early American history, including slavery, the antislavery movement, religious and intellectual history. My first book is entitled To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement (Kent State University Press, 2014). Here I explore the relationship between Puritan theology and the rise of black abolitionism, arguing throughout the work that African Americans were central to the development of the antislavery movement in America. My second monograph, Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism (Northwestern University Press, 2019) traces the long history of black humanism, atheism, and agnosticism from the early 19th century to the civil rights era.