Tightening 1958 🇯🇲 Jamaica

Monty Howell recalls the final dispersal of Pinnacle

In testimony recorded by Michael Barnett in June 2020, Monty Howell dates a final eviction and destruction of remaining homes to 1958. This timeline entry identifies the retrospective account; it does not present a newly examined contemporary police record.^[1]

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), pp. 59–60, Monty Howell interview archived

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