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.
In Delaware, the general feeling was against the increase of slavery, and before 1700, some slaves had been freed. Before the eighteenth century, the people of Delaware relied on the work from Indian slaves rather than African slaves. This stopped at around 1720. African slaves were not used until the Dutch had control of Delaware. Sentiment and the continued freeing of slaves did not prevent the sale of other blacks, however, during most of the eighteenth century. This led to a declaration against slavery in the first constitution of the state in 1776 in Article 26.