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{{Short description|Proto-Rastafari religious text}} {{italic title}} The '''''Holy Piby''''', also known as the Black Man's Bible, is a text written by an [[Anguilla]]n, [[Robert Athlyi Rogers]] (d. 1931), for the use of an [[Afrocentrism|Afrocentric]] [[religion]] in the [[West Indies]] founded by Rogers in the 1920s, known as the [[Afro-Athlican Constructive Gaathly]].<ref name="Introduction & Analysis">{{cite book |last1=Selassie I, Ph.D. |first1=W. Gabriel |title=Introduction and Analysis: The Holy Piby, The Blackman's Bible |date=2017 |publisher=Orunmilla, Inc. |location=Los Angeles |isbn=978-0986381904 |pages=xiii}}</ref> The [[theology]] outlined in this work saw [[Ethiopia]]ns (in the classical sense of all Africans) as the [[chosen people]] of God. The church preached self-reliance and [[self-determination]] for Africans, using the Piby as its guiding document.
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