Leonard Howell is imprisoned for sedition

Leonard Howell receives a two-year sentence for sedition arising from his early Rastafari preaching. This concerns colonial suppression of religious and anti-colonial speech, rather than a cannabis-possession conviction.^[1]

Religion

In the cultural atlas

People · Jamaican religious leader · 1898–1981Leonard HowellAn early Rastafari preacher and founder of Pinnacle, a Jamaican farming and religious community that grew ganja alongside food crops. Colonial raids repeatedly disrupted the settlement and dispersed its residents.

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References

Michael Barnett — The Legacy of Charismatic Leadership in the Rastafari Movement, IDEAZ 15 (2020), p. 57 archived

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