Two months before the end of the Civil War Delaware voted on February 18, 1865 to reject the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution and so voted unsuccessfully to continue slavery beyond the Civil War. Delaware symbolically ratified the amendment on February 12, 1901—40 years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Slavery ended in Delaware only when the Thirteenth Amendment took effect in December of 1865. Delaware also rejected the 14th amendment during the Reconstruction Era. It seems that even though Delaware appeared to be in the Union camp it’s sympathies were with the South.
“It seems that even though Delaware appeared to be in the Union camp it’s sympathies were with the South.”
Funny the way it showed that, eh?