[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.