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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-10-28 06:51 pm

[ SECRET POSt #2491 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2491 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[0nemoresoul2thecall]


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[Attack on Titan]


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[The Hobbit]


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[South Park/The Place Beyond The Pines]


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[One Piece]


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07.
[Chess the Musical]


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08.
[Horatio Hornblower]


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[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]

















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Re: I, uh

[personal profile] chardmonster 2013-10-28 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
On 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 had been 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.[14]

One of those who entered the premises was Judge Jean-Francois 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 claimed that when he questioned Madame Lalaurie's husband about the slaves, 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."[15]

A version of this story circulating in 1836, recounted by Martineau, added that the slaves were emaciated, showed signs of being flayed with a whip, were bound in restrictive postures, and wore spiked iron collars which kept their heads in static positions.[13]

Re: I, uh

(Anonymous) 2013-10-29 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
Ooookay, I guess if you're creeping out the rest of the slaveholding South, you're doing something really special.
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Re: I, uh

[personal profile] chardmonster 2013-10-29 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Granted New Orleans was always a little different, but this woman was horrid enough she had slaves taken away before this for undue cruelty.