![]() Published in 1978, Slave Religion “transformed our understanding of the religious experiences of the enslaved,” wrote Judith Weisenfeld, chair of the Department of Religion at Princeton, in a September 20 tribute to Raboteau, under whom she once studied. ![]() (Everett Collection, )Īt Princeton from 1982 until he retired in 2013, Raboteau was one of the first historians to dispel the myth that Black slaves merely adopted the Christian faith of their white oppressors.īeginning with his first book, Slave Religion: The ‘Invisible Institution’ in the Antebellum South, Raboteau chronicled how slaves combined aspects of African religious traditions with a unique theology that viewed events surrounding the life of Jesus Christ as a direct reflection of their own suffering. ![]() Timothy O'Sullivan photographed the slaves in 1862. Enslaved African American family representing five generations born on the plantation of JJ Smith, Beaufort, South Carolina. ![]()
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