Certain of the canons of interpretation are based upon. specific case-law searches for those principles. The case-law portion of the guide is organized in an outline according contract-. interpretation principle and enables the reader to get a sense of how widely adopted a given. principle is by the consistency of that principleâs use and articulation in the cases cited.
It is now a proven fact that Igbo slaves were the preferred slaves in Virginia. Although, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, above tells us that they were purchased because of. the poverty of the slave owners, one is then hard pressed to explain why the.
And for a time, free black people could even own the services of white indentured servants in Virginia as well. Free blacks owned slaves in Boston by 1724 and in Connecticut by 1783; by 1790, 48 black people in Maryland owned 143 slaves. One particularly notorious black Maryland farmer named Nat Butler regularly purchased and sold Negroes for the Southern trade, Halliburton wrote.