Christopher Cameron’s newest book, Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism, is an attempt to rectify what he sees as a glaring assumption in African American history. “The assumption that atheism and other forms of nonbelief are the preserve of whites,” wrote Cameron, “has caused most historians and scholars of religion to ignore or downplay their existence among African Americans” (ix). Indeed, in Black Freethinkers, Cameron goes to great lengths to showcase the long history of freethinking, agnosticism, and atheism among prominent African Americans. In the process, Black Freethinkers also demonstrates the importance of not just gathering sources but Read more