CONSIGNOR, contracts. One who makes a consignment to another. 2. When goods are consigned to be sold on commission, and the property remains in the consignor; or when goods have been consigned upon a credit, and the consignee has become a bankrupt or failed, the consignor has a right to stop them in transitu. (q.v.) Abbot on Sh. p. 3, c. 3.
Only in December 1865, when the 13th Amendment went into effect on a national scale, did slavery cease in Delaware. By then there were only a few hundred left. Many male slaves had enlisted in black regiments during the war.
1862- Slavery is abolished in District of Columbia. 1863- Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, which frees all slaves in the territories currently in rebellion. 1864- On November 1, slavery is abolished in Maryland. 1865- Slavery is abolished in all of the states by the 13th Amendment. Taken, in part, from Berlin, Ira. A Guide to the History of Slavery in Maryland.