Reverend Fitz Balintine Pettersburg was a proto-

Rastafari Rastafari, sometimes called Rastafarianism, is a religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s. It is classified as both a new religious movement and a social movement by scholars of religion. There is no central authority in control of ...

preacher, and author of the ''

Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy ''The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy'' is a text from Jamaica, written during the 1920s by a proto-Rastafari preacher, Fitz Balintine Pettersburg. The ''Royal Parchment Scroll'' is today recognized as one of the root documents of Rast ...

'', published in 1926. He influenced

Leonard Howell Leonard Percival Howell (16 June 1898 – 23 January 1981), also known as The Gong or G.G. Maragh (for ''Gangun Guru''), was a Jamaican religious figure. According to his biographer Hélène Lee, Howell was born into an Anglican family. He was one ...

, who according to author Barry Chevannes, plagiarised the ''Royal Parchment Scroll'' in his 1935 book ''

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 s ...

''.

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