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With everything going on right now . This is a good time to tell y’all about Delphine LaLaurie .
okay y’all , this lady was FUCKED up . she would severely brutalize & starve her slaves. this would be revealed to the public when her house caught on fire in 1834 . y’all .... this lady was straight EVIL. keep reading .
so Marie and her 3rd husband Dr. Louis Lalaurie purchased a lot which the house above was being built on in 1831 .
Delphine has very wealthy and held a high societal status. when she would throw parties, guests would mention they heard small faint moans coming from the upstairs of her home, and ask where her servants were.
in the early morning of april 10, 1834 , a fire broke out inside the home. according to authorities, the family's cook, a 70-year-old black woman who worked while chained to the stove, started the blaze.
as the fire was extinguished, neighbors broke down the doors to the slave quarters and the attic to save as many people as they could.
entering the attic, they found a mass of bodies. some were dead, but others were (barely) alive. they were chained to the walls, mutilated and starving.
the day after the fire, the New Orleans Bee wrote: “Upon entering one of the apartments..seven slaves more or less horribly mutilated were seen suspended by the neck, with their limbs apparently stretched and torn from one extremity to the other ...
for several months in the situation from which they had thus providentially been rescued and had been merely kept in existence to prolong their suffering and to make them taste all that the most refined cruelty could inflict.”
eyewitnesses claim that there were at least seven slaves, beaten, bruised, and bloodied to within an inch of their lives, their eyes gouged out, skin flayed, and mouths filled with animal shit and then sewn shut.
some of the slaves had holes drilled in their skulls. maggots could be seen crawling inside. one slave was discovered barely alive with a stick coming from a drilled hole into his skull. It was later found that the lalaurie was was stirring his brains , probably to torture him .
they found one woman whose skin had been peeled off in spirals to make her look like a caterpillar, hands sewn to different parts of the body, one with bones broken & moved so that she looked like a crab, and one whose intestines had been torn out and knotted around the waist.
some say she put the blood of her slaves on her face to maintain a youthful complexion. it was also said that her husband may have been using the slaves to practice haitian hoodoo medicine on .
when the renovation of the mansion began, the renovators discovered a number of bodies of slaves that had been buried alive under the floor boards. including a baby’s body. the discovery led to the conclusion that LaLaurie had buried the slaves alive as a means to torture them.
Delphine Lalaurie never was charged for her crimes and was “said” that she ran off to Paris.
the mansion is said to be haunted. FUCKING RIGHT. i rode my bike up there one day and you can just feel the energy shift. it is still standing on royal st. newly renovated.
it was said that she tortured, killed, and buried over a hundred slaves. how can a person be so evil ?? she is known as one of the most brutally evil women in history .
fucking RIOT !!!!!
