![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1982 Princeton University hired Raboteau, first as a visiting professor and then as full-time faculty. Raboteau's dissertation, later revised and published as the book Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South, was published just as the black studies movement was gaining steam in the 1970s and in the wake of revolutionary scholarship on American slavery: Olli Alho's The Religion of Slaves (1976), Blassingame's Slave Community (1972) and Slave Testimony (1977), Eugene Genovese's Roll, Jordan, Roll (1974), and Lawrence Levine's Black Culture and Black Consciousness (1977). He entered the Yale Graduate Program in Religious Studies, where he studied with American religious historian Sydney Ahlstrom and African American historian John Blassingame. He was accepted into college at the age of sixteen. Raboteau's stepfather taught him Latin and Greek starting at five years old, and also helped him focus on church and education. She remarried to an African American priest, who was one of the early black priests in the Roman Catholic Church however his stepfather left the church due to perceived racism and became a teacher of classics. His mother moved from the Southern United States where she was a teacher, and moved to find a better place for her children. Before Raboteau was born, his father was killed by a white man who was never convicted of the crime. ![]()
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