June Monthly Meeting - Revival of Reason - Chris Cameron

The Atlanta Freethought Society June monthly meeting will be the culmination of the Reason Revival being hosted by our organization in conjunction with the Black Non-Believers of Atlanta.

The speaker will be Christopher Cameron.

Christopher Cameron (He/Him/His) is a Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He was the founding president of the African American Intellectual History Society. Cameron received his B.A. in History from Keene State College and his M.A. and Ph.D. 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 African 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 co-editor of Race, Religion, and Black Lives Matter: Essays on a Moment and a Movement (Vanderbilt University Press, 2021) and New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition (Northwestern University Press, 2018).