House Divided : Slavery and Emancipation in Delaware, 1, Hardcover by Essah, Patience, ISBN 081391681X, ISBN-13 9780813916811, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US During the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, border states such as Delaware were the site of interesting, often confounding, social paradoxes. Although staunchly Unionist, Delaware had its share of slaveowners, and while Delaware slaveowners voluntarily freed over 90% of their slaves in the 1860s, the State did not ratify the Thirteenth Amendment outlawing slavery until 1901. Essah (history, Auburn U.) addresses these seemingly irreconcilable attitudes and events and provides a portrait of Delaware's tangled relationship with slavery. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.