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.
By 1680, there were some 7,000 African slaves in the American colonies, a number that ballooned to 700,000 by 1790, according to some estimates. Congress outlawed the importation of slaves to the United States as of 1808, but the practice continued. The U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) resulted in the emancipation of approximately 4 million slaves.