Christopher Cameron

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Professor of History, UNC Charlotte | Author, Black Freethinkers

Christopher Cameron is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is a founder of the African American Intellectual History Society, the author of To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement and Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism, and a coeditor of New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition.

Sept. 23, 2026

United by Hope: Live from the World Humanist Congress 2026 Part 2

Day two in Ottawa: quickfire conversations on humanist chaplaincy, local community, humanist politics and resisting the normalisation of dehumanisation.
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Sept. 17, 2023

2. Prof. Christopher Cameron on Black Freethinkers plus Ending Conversion Therapy

Historian Christopher Cameron on the hidden history of Black freethinkers and African American secularism, plus Audrey Simmons of the Association of Black Humanists and an update on the UK conversion therapy ban.