>On April 10, 1834, a fire broke-out in the Royal Street mansion, beginning in the kitchen. When police and fire marshals reached the residence, they found a 70-year-old cook chained to the stove by her ankle. The cook later said that she had set the fire as a suicide attempt because she feared being punished, stating that slaves taken to the uppermost room “never came back”.
>As reported in the *New Orleans Bee* of April 11, 1834, bystanders responding to the fire attempted to enter the quarters of those enslaved to ensure that everyone had been evacuated. Upon being refused the keys by the LaLauries, the bystanders broke down the doors to the quarters and found “seven people, more or less horribly mutilated … suspended by the neck, with their limbs apparently stretched and torn from one extremity to the other”, who claimed to have been imprisoned there for some months.
>One of those who entered the premises was Judge Jean François Canonge, who subsequently deposed to having found in the LaLaurie mansion (among others) a “negress … wearing an iron collar” and “an old negro woman who had received a very deep wound on her head [who was] too weak to be able to walk”. Canonge said that, when he questioned LaLaurie’s husband about those enslaved on the property, he was told in an insolent manner that “some people had better stay at home rather than come to others’ houses to dictate laws and meddle with other people’s business”.
jRw_1 on
There is, a house, in New Orleans…
And it’s full of fucking slaves apparently
LizFallingUp on
Dungeon implies it was in the basement, it was worse it was in the hot attic.
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>On April 10, 1834, a fire broke-out in the Royal Street mansion, beginning in the kitchen. When police and fire marshals reached the residence, they found a 70-year-old cook chained to the stove by her ankle. The cook later said that she had set the fire as a suicide attempt because she feared being punished, stating that slaves taken to the uppermost room “never came back”.
>As reported in the *New Orleans Bee* of April 11, 1834, bystanders responding to the fire attempted to enter the quarters of those enslaved to ensure that everyone had been evacuated. Upon being refused the keys by the LaLauries, the bystanders broke down the doors to the quarters and found “seven people, more or less horribly mutilated … suspended by the neck, with their limbs apparently stretched and torn from one extremity to the other”, who claimed to have been imprisoned there for some months.
>One of those who entered the premises was Judge Jean François Canonge, who subsequently deposed to having found in the LaLaurie mansion (among others) a “negress … wearing an iron collar” and “an old negro woman who had received a very deep wound on her head [who was] too weak to be able to walk”. Canonge said that, when he questioned LaLaurie’s husband about those enslaved on the property, he was told in an insolent manner that “some people had better stay at home rather than come to others’ houses to dictate laws and meddle with other people’s business”.
There is, a house, in New Orleans…
And it’s full of fucking slaves apparently
Dungeon implies it was in the basement, it was worse it was in the hot attic.