[210] The writer of the following article, though not of the race to serve which this JOURNAL specially exists, offers a contribution to its pages because of the deep and sympathetic interest he has long taken in the African race, and because of his belief in its future. He would also interest readers of the JOURNAL in his native island, Jamaica, where, although the creation still bears marks of human imperfection and incompleteness, a community has been brought into being in which the racial elements, in such fierce and embittered antagonism elsewhere, are gradually, but surely, blending into a whole of common citizenship. T.H. MACDERMOT, Editor of the _Jamaica Times_, Ltd. [211] Gardner, "History of Jamaica," 10. [212] Gardner, "History of Jamaica," 31. [213] Bridges, "Annals of Jamaica," I, 204. [214] Long, "History of Jamaica," 234; and Gardner, "History of Jamaica," 31-32. [215] See Dallas's "History of the Maroons," I, 26. [216] This is the history of gradual emancipation in most slaveholding states. [217] Gardner, "History of Jamaica," 207. [218] Long, "History of Jamaica," II, 476. [219] Gardner, "History of Jamaica," 207. [220] Gardner, "History of Jamaica," 123. [221] Long, "History of Jamaica," II, 476; and Gardner, "History of Jamaica," 207. [222] Long, "History of Jamaica," II, 478. [223] Long says: "He defined himself 'a white man acting under a black skin,' He endeavored to prove logically, that a Negroe was superior in quality to a Mulatto, or other craft, or other cast. His proposition was, that 'a simple white or simple black complexion was respectively perfect: but a Mulatto, being an heterogeneous medley of both, was imperfect, _ergo_ inferior,'" Long, "History of Jamaica," II, 478. [224] _ibid._, II, 478 [225] Gardner, "History of Jamaica," 208. [226] Edward Long undertook to analyze this poem in such a way as to show the inferiority of the Negro. These notes are all his. See Long's "History of Jamaica," II, 478-485. [227] Gardner, _History of Jamaica_, appendix. NOTES ON THE NOMOLIS OF SHERBROLAND