Albert j raboteau biography
Albert Jordy Raboteau was..
Albert J. Raboteau
American academic (–)
Albert Jordy Raboteau II (September 4, – September 18, ) was an American scholar of African and African-American religions.
Since , he had been affiliated with Princeton University, where he was Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion.
Biography
Early life and education
Raboteau was born into a Catholic family in Bay St.
Louis, Mississippi, three months after his father, Albert Jordy Raboteau, Sr. (–), was killed there by a white man.
Albert Jordy Raboteau II (September 4, – September 18, ) was an American scholar of African and African-American religions.
The killer claimed self-defense and was never prosecuted.[1] Raboteau was named for his late father, who was of African and French Creole descent.[2]
His widowed mother moved the family from Mississippi, where she was a teacher, to find a better place in the North for her children to grow up.[1] She married again, to Royal Woods, an African-American minister.
They lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for a period and in California. Raboteau's stepfather taught the boy Latin an