Maroon History & Rastafari Reading Guide — The Full 25-Book Catalog
Reading Catalog · Maroon Histories Twenty-five books on reggae, Rastafari, Marcus Garvey, and Caribbean history. Every entry links to its […]
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Biography, Jamaica, Law & Sovereignty — Colonial Control, We Were Already Here
The Cudjoe Treaty of 1739: What It Actually Said
Article 1 grants “a perfect state of freedom and liberty.” Article 6 requires the Maroons to hunt runaway enslaved Africans for a bounty. Both readings are in the same document. Read all fifteen articles.
Africa Origins, Law & Sovereignty — Colonial Control, We Were Already Here
The Ships That Never Sailed Home: What “Independence” Meant Below Deck
On July 4, 1776, twelve thousand Africans were already at sea in ships flying the same flags the founders had just renounced. The Middle Passage did not pause for the paperwork of independence.
Jamaica, Law & Sovereignty — Colonial Control, We Were Already Here
Whose Independence? A Note on the Calendar of Freedom
On July 1 the Caribbean marked Emancipation Day. On July 4 the US marks Independence. Two calendars, two freedoms, neither of them Maroon. A note on the third calendar — the one that starts before 1739, before 1834, before 1776.
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The Emperor Is Right & Exact! We All Are Building Our Sovereign Entities Sanctuary!!!
Emperor Horus LA Lewis El Bey is not performing. He is remembering. He is acting on a truth older than every flag, every border, every birth certificate ever issued: the sovereign owns the land — the land does not own the sovereign.
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§3.3.0 The Cestui Que Vie Act of 1666 — When the Crown Declared You Dead and Claimed Your Estate
London is burning. September 1666. Parliament answers with a statute: anyone absent seven years without proof of life is presumed legally dead — their estate held in trust by the Crown. Three hundred and sixty years later, the trust is still open.
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Part III: The Birth Certificate as Cargo Manifest — The Maritime Origins of Your Legal Identity
Part III of the Strawman Doctrine series. The detailed structural analysis. The maritime law origins of the registration document. The transmission of the cargo manifest’s legal architecture into the modern birth certificate. The CUSIP-like structure of birth certificate numbers and the controversial claims about their circulation in financial markets. The full historical lineage from the Atlantic slave ship to the hospital registrar.
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Part II: The Cestui Que Vie Act of 1666 — When Every Englishman Was Declared Legally Dead
Part II of the Strawman Doctrine series. The first paid chapter. The Cestui Que Vie Act of 1666 — the English statute, passed in the aftermath of the Great Fire of London, that presumed any person not formally reclaiming themselves within seven years to be legally dead, with their estate held in trust. The trust that some researchers argue has been institutionally preserved across the centuries to hold the estates of all subsequently registered persons.
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Introduction: How Your Name Became Cargo — The Strawman Doctrine
The introduction to The Strawman Doctrine. The cargo manifest of a slave ship. The birth certificate in your filing cabinet. The same legal architecture. The same typographical convention. The same registration process. The same transformation of a sovereign human being into a documented, numbered, tradeable legal entity. This is the bridge between the Architecture of Control and the strawman doctrine. Free for everyone.
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Part I: Capitis Diminutio Maxima — The Roman Origin of the ALL CAPS Name
The foundation chapter. Two thousand years ago, Roman lawyers developed a vocabulary for measuring the loss of legal status. The greatest of those losses — Capitis Diminutio Maxima — was marked by writing the name of the diminished entity in capital letters. That convention is still in use. It is on your birth certificate. Free for everyone.