A 2014 Jamaica Observer retrospective on Pinnacle, read directly for this pass alongside corroborating Rastafari-history accounts of Leonard Howell's 1940 founding of the commune, its self-sufficient economy including ganja cultivation, the 1941 police raid, and its destruction in a 1954 raid that scattered the early Rastafari movement.
Facts
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
Reliability tier 3: a Jamaican national newspaper retrospective, not a peer-reviewed academic source, used here for settled institutional facts (the founding year, the 1941 and 1954 raids, the commune's scale), corroborated against the historical scholarship on Leonard Howell's suppression read alongside it. NotesCited for the 1940 founding, the commune's scale and economy, and the 1941 and 1954 police raids that ended it.
Citation
PublisherJamaica Observer
Publication Year2014
URLhttps://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2014/02/03/pinnacle-the-truth-about-the-matter/
Source Typereference
Sources
Claims Backed By This Source (26 claims)
This source backs 26 claims across the atlas. As facts: 21 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sacred Sites, 15 claims: 12 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Articles, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
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