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.
The first people of Nigerian ancestry in what is now the modern United States came as slaves from the 17th century onwards. Calabar, Nigeria, became a major point of export of slaves, from Africa to the Americas, during the 17 and 18th centuries. Most slave ships frequenting this port were English.ome Nigerian ethnic groups, such as the Yoruba, and some northern Nigerian ethnic groups, had tribal facial identification marks. These could have assisted a returning slave in relocating his or her ethnic group, but few slaves escaped the colonies.