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Dunkley, The Suppression of Leonard Howell in Late Colonial Jamaica, 1932-1954 (New West Indian Guide, 2013)

D.A. Dunkley

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D.A. Dunkley, a historian at the University of the West Indies, traces the colonial government's efforts to suppress Leonard Howell across more than two decades, from his 1932 return to Jamaica preaching Haile Selassie's divinity through his 1937 founding of the Ethiopian Salvation Society to his establishment of the first Rastafari community in the hills of St. Catherine Parish around 1940, and the raids that followed.

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Author
D.A. Dunkley
Publisher
New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids
URL
https://brill.com/view/journals/nwig/87/1-2/article-p62_4.xml
Source Type
peer-reviewed article
Assessment
Reliability Tier
1
A peer reviewed academic journal article in New West Indian Guide, tier 1, matching the tier the map gives comparable peer reviewed scholarship, used here for the 1940 founding of Pinnacle within the wider campaign against Howell, corroborated by the Jamaica National Heritage Trust's own record of the site.
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Jamaica, Countries

This source names Jamaica directly: "two decades, from his 1932 return to Jamaica preaching Haile Selassie's divinity through his 1937 founding of the Ethiopian Salvation Society to his establishment of the first Rastafari community in..."

Rastafari, Religions

This source names Rastafari directly: "to his establishment of the first Rastafari community in the hills of St."

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  • Sources, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 holds.
  • Spread Events, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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