''The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy'' is a text from Jamaica, written during the 1920s by a proto-
Rastafari
Rastafari is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s. It is classified as both a new religious movement and a social movement by Religious studies, scholars of religion. There is no central authori ...
preacher,
Fitz Balintine Pettersburg
Reverend Fitz Balintine Pettersburg was a proto-Rastafari preacher, and author of the '' Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy'', published in 1926. He influenced Leonard Howell, who according to author Barry Chevannes, plagiarised the ''Royal ...
. The ''Royal Parchment Scroll'' is today recognized as one of the root documents of Rastafari thought, along with ''
The Holy Piby'' and
Leonard P. Howell's ''
The Promise Key
''The Promised Key'', sometimes known as ''The Promise Key'', is a 1935 Rastafari movement tract by Jamaican preacher Leonard Howell, written under Howell's Hindu pen name G. G. Maragh (for ''Gong Guru'').
Content
The tract bears some close ...
'', which itself made considerable use of content from Pettersburg's work.
See also
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Black supremacy
Black supremacy is a racial supremacist belief which maintains that black people are inherently superior to people of other races.
Historical usage
Black supremacy was advocated by Jamaican preacher Leonard Howell in the 1935 Rastafari mov ...
References
Further reading
''The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy'' by Rev. Fitz Balintine Pettersburgh, Frontline Distribution International Inc. (2003),
External links
complete etext at sacred-texts.com
Rastafarian texts
Black supremacy
1920s documents
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