Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy
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The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy, published in 1926 by a proto-Rastafari
preacher, Fitz Balintine Pettersburg
, is of historical and religious significance to followers of the Rastafari movement. Along with The Holy Piby
, it is today recognized as one of the root documents of Rastafari thought. It is a surrealistic stream-of-consciousness polemic against the white colonial power structure, a palimpsest
of Afrocentric
thought.
Rastafari movement
The Rastafari movement or Rasta is a new religious movement that arose in the 1930s in Jamaica, which at the time was a country with a predominantly Christian culture where 98% of the people were the black descendants of slaves. Its adherents worship Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia , as God...
preacher, Fitz Balintine Pettersburg
Fitz Balintine Pettersburg
Rev. Fitz Balintine Pettersburg was a proto-Rastafari preacher, author of the Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy, published in 1926....
, is of historical and religious significance to followers of the Rastafari movement. Along with The Holy Piby
Holy Piby
The Holy Piby is a proto-Rastafarian text written by an Anguillan, Robert Athlyi Rogers , for the use of an Afrocentric religion in the West Indies founded by Rogers in the 1920s, known as the Afro-Athlican Constructive Gaathly. The theology outlined in this work saw Ethiopians as the chosen...
, it is today recognized as one of the root documents of Rastafari thought. It is a surrealistic stream-of-consciousness polemic against the white colonial power structure, a palimpsest
Palimpsest
A palimpsest is a manuscript page from a scroll or book from which the text has been scraped off and which can be used again. The word "palimpsest" comes through Latin palimpsēstus from Ancient Greek παλίμψηστος originally compounded from πάλιν and ψάω literally meaning “scraped...
of Afrocentric
Afrocentrism
Afrocentrism is cultural ideology mostly limited to the United States, dedicated to the history of Black people a response to global racist attitudes about African people and their historical contributions by revisiting this history with an African cultural and ideological center...
thought.