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.
It is hard to say when slavery began, it has been a form of civilization for a long time until it was made illegal in England, which was a massive empire at the time, in 1772.â¦ But slavery had begun in many ancient civilisations, including the Romans and Ancient Egyptians.