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.
Why did the colony of Delaware become a colony? Delaware was founded by the Dutch in 1631. In 1622, the Duke of York acquired it and subsequently ceded it to William Penn, who wanted to allow his colony of Pennsylvania â¦ sea access. The two colonies never got on well, so in 1704, Delaware split and was allowed to form its own assembly.