Notes


 1. John P. Knox, A Historical Account of St. Thomas. W.I.. and Incidental Notices of
 St. Croix and St. John (New York: Charles Scribners, 1852), 47. The dates given
 after the names of various Danish sovereigns refer to the period of their reigns.

 2. Jens Larsen, Virgin Islands Story (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1950), 13-14.

 3. Knox, 48-51.

 4. Isaac Dookhan, A History of the Virgin Islands of the United States (Epping Essex,
 England: Caribbean Universities Press in Association with Bowker Publishing Co
 for the College of the Virgin Islands, 1974), 121-134; 147-159; 161-179; William
 W. Boyer, America's Virgin Islands: A History of Human Rights and Wrongs
 (Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 1983), 10-58.

 5. jbid.

 6. Ibid.

 7. Ibid.

 8. Iid.

 9. Ibid.

 10. Ibid.

11. Ibi .

12. Dookhan, 224.

13. Ibid, 224-225.

14. James A. Bough and Roy C. Macridis, eds., Virgin Islands. America's Caribbean
 Outpost: The Evolution of Self Government, Wakefield, Mass.: The Walter F.
 Williams Publishing Co), 1970, 11-14.

15. Dookhan, 210-211.

16. Bough and Marcridis, 15-29.