The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism Slavery helped finance the Industrial

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England

Katherine Johnson

He had to learn how to be strong and how to hold on to his individuality

he knows that the freedom he’s found is only an illusion—and that he can’t run forever

Vonetta and Fern

The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism Slavery helped finance the IndustrialGoing far beyond the standard imagery of Rastaganja, reggae, and dreadlocksthis cultural history offers an uncensored vision of a movement with complex roots and the exceptional journey of a man who taught an enslaved people how to be proud and impose their culture on the world. In the 1920s Leonard Percival Howell and the First Rastas had a revelation concerning the divinity of Haile Selassie, king of Ethiopia, that established the vision for the