jeffersondem: "If I understand your chart of questions and answers correctly you are claiming that the rebels (southern states) did not abolish slavery voluntarily after the end of the 1861 war.
Is that a correct understanding of your post?"
Yes, understanding that not all Southern states were in rebellion, or that all citizens of Confederate states were rebels.
FYI, here is a map showing the progress of abolition laws from 1776 through December 1865.
Notice that dark-red states (KY & DE) did not formally abolish slavery until ratification of the 13th Amendment, and that brown colored states did voluntarily pass abolition laws during the war.
Pink and tan are areas freed by Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
There are no examples I know of, of Confederate state legislatures abolishing slavery.
Abolition of slavery in the various states of the US over time:
