{"product_id":"pinnacle-the-lost-paradise-of-rasta-hardcover","title":"Pinnacle: The Lost Paradise of Rasta - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBill Blade Howell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eH?l?ne Lee\u003c\/b\u003e (With)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIN 1932, A JAMAICAN MAN NAMED LEONARD PERCIVAL HOWELL\u003c\/strong\u003e began leading nonviolent protests in Kingston, Jamaica, against British colonial rule. While history books rightly credit Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. with popularizing nonviolent protest strategies in later years, little is known about Leonard Howell and his vision of self-reliance--poor people working together to build a society of their own. When Howell first started preaching on street corners in Kingston, he was immediately perceived as \"seditious,\" and he became a target for police harassment. Howell soon founded an organization called the Ethiopian Salvation Society. His idea was to add a religious element to Marcus Garvey's message of African independence. Although Christian values were part of his belief system, he decided to make a break from the Christian interpretation of the Bible and extend the idea of divinity to a living man, Emperor Haile Selassie I, who had been crowned king of Ethiopia in 1930. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJamaican journalists coined a name for the group: the \"Ras Tafarites,\" or \"Rastas.\" Howell was arrested several times and was eventually found guilty of sedition and sentenced to prison for two years of hard labor. In 1940, Howell and his growing group of followers moved to an old estate in the parish of St. Catherine. They named their land Pinnacle, and for the next sixteen years built a self-reliant community that would ultimately give birth to the Rastafari movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1942, Leonard Howell's wife Tenneth gave birth to their second child, who they named Bill. In \u003cem\u003ePinnacle: The Lost Paradise of Rasta, \u003c\/em\u003e Bill \"Blade\" Howell offers his firsthand account of this utopian community that suffered near-constant persecution from Jamaican authorities. Howell also dispels many misguided notions about the origins of Rastafari culture, including allegations of sexism and homophobia. Pinnacle was built on egalitarian principles, and steered clear of all religious dogma.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003ePinnacle: The Lost Paradise of Rasta\u003c\/em\u003e provides a crucial and highly informed new perspective on the Rastafari subculture that Bob Marley would later help to spread across the globe. The volume includes photographs and original documents related to Pinnacle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 06, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48816541958392,"sku":"9781636141725","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/UpJjyw9etx9781636141725.webp?v=1780573832","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/pinnacle-the-lost-paradise-of-rasta-hardcover","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}