''The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy'' is a text from Jamaica, written during the 1920s by 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,
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 P ...
. The ''Royal Parchment Scroll'' is today recognized as one of the root documents of Rastafari thought, along with ''
The Holy Piby
The ''Holy Piby'', also known as the Black Man's Bible, is a text written by an Anguillan, Robert Athlyi Rogers (d. 1931), for the use of an Afrocentric religion in the West Indies founded by Rogers in the 1920s, known as the Afro-Athlican Cons ...
'' 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 s ...
'', which itself made considerable use of content from Pettersburg's work.
See also
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Black supremacy
Black supremacy or black supremacism is a racial supremacist belief which maintains that black people are superior to people of other races. In the 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr. said that a doctrine of black supremacy was as dangerous as white ...
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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