How much of the story of Madame LaLaurie's chamber of horrors

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>>2103541

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>>2103541
Bump for interest. I know nothing on the subject

/x/'s pathetic attempt on a /his/ thread.

>>2103541
The elegant and universally admired Madame Delphine LaLaurie was not only a brilliant hostess for high society balls. But she was also renown for her remarkable equestrian abilities and her tireless charitable works. And what of the tales claiming she was a serial killer? That's a misprint. And the torture chamber? There was no torture chamber. The attic was used for storage. And occasionally for the firm, but humane correction of Madame LaLaurie's domestics. These wild tales of barbarity you've heard are nothing more than lies invented by her many enemies. Madame Delphine LaLaurie was a woman ahead of her time. A visionary. Misunderstood. And hated for it.

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>>2103662
>The attic was used for storage. And occasionally for the firm, but humane correction of Madame LaLaurie's domestics.
>firm, but humane correction

Please do elaborate.

This subject... interests me.

>>2103677
There is nothing to elaborate upon.

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>>2103630
What do you mean? She's not fictional. I was asking how much is true. try not being so condescending. I don't even go on /x/

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>>2103677
this seems to be the more reasonable account of the episode.
>April 10, 1834, a fire broke out in the LaLaurie residence on Royal Street, starting in the kitchen. When the police and fire marshals got there, they found a seventy-year-old woman, the cook, chained to the stove by her ankle. She later confessed to them that she had set the fire as a suicide attempt for fear of her punishment, being taken to the uppermost room, because she said that anyone who was taken there never came back. As reported in the New Orleans Bee of April 11, 1834, bystanders responding to the fire attempted to enter the slave quarters to ensure that everyone had been evacuated. Upon being refused the keys by the LaLauries, the bystanders broke down the doors to the slave quarters and found "seven slaves, 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

But I've heard tales of reforming limbs into crab people, amputations, missing eyes, shattered jaws and teeth.

I could only find a single source from a newspaper so I was curious if all the more macabre was just BS.

>>2103677
'ere ya go
>male slaves, stark naked, chained to the wall, their eyes gouged out, their fingernails pulled off by the roots; others had their joints skinned and festering, great holes in their buttocks where the flesh had been sliced away, their ears hanging by shreds, their lips sewn together ... Intestines were pulled out and knotted around naked waists. There were holes in skulls, where a rough stick had been inserted to stir the brains

>>2103729
Lies, all lies. I don't buy a word of it, why would you purchase a negro of prime southern stock only to dispose of it months later? Utter nonsense if you ask me.

How has Hollywood not made a horror movie out of her yet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphine_LaLaurie#Torture_and_murder_of_slaves_and_1834_LaLaurie_mansion_fire

>The tortured slaves were taken to a local jail, where they were available for public viewing. The New Orleans Bee reported that by April 12 up to 4,000 people had attended to view the tortured slaves "to convince themselves of their sufferings."[17]

>The Pittsfield Sun, citing the New Orleans Advertiser and writing several weeks after the evacuation of LaLaurie's slave quarters, claimed that two of the slaves found in the LaLaurie mansion had died since their rescue, and added, "We understand ... that in digging the yard, bodies have been disinterred, and the condemned well [in the grounds of the mansion] having been uncovered, others, particularly that of a child, were found."[18]

>>2103729
S'bout right. The stories of crab people, gouged out eyes, etc, mostly came from non-local writers who were hyping up the story for readers.

Here's a thorough read: http://www.vice.com/read/a-portrait-of-cruelty-madame-marie-delphine-lalaurie-982