
Her guests would be bewildered by the exquisite décor inside the LaLaurie dwelling. LaLaurie began to move their possessions to safety. The LaLaurie household became a flurry of activity as Madame, and Dr.

All were “covered with scars and loaded with chains.“ They had all been imprisoned for several months and were extremely malnourished. The LaLaurie mansion at 1140 Royal Street. “All our subjects in this colony whatever their condition or rank” from applying by “their own private authority the rack to their slaves, under any pretense whatever and to mutilate said slaves in any one of their limbs or in any part of their bodies under penalty of the confiscation of said slaves and said masters so offending, shall be liable to a criminal prosecution.”. Rescuers brought out the bodies of seven starved and tortured slaves from an attic above the kitchen. By this time, the smoke in the service block was thick, and the pair declared they could find no one.Ī mob looted her mansion, and Delphine LaLaurie escaped from New Orleans and into legend.

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