Delphine LaLaurie was a monster

Copy and pasted from Wikipedia: > __Marie Delphine Macarty__ or MacCarthy (March 19, 1787 – December 7, 1849), more commonly known as __Madame Blanque__ or, after her third marriage, as __Madame LaLaurie__ , was a New Orleans socialite and known serial killer who tortured and murdered enslaved people in her household. > Accounts of Delphines treatment of the people she enslaved between 1831 and 1834 vary. Harriet Martineau (writing in 1838), recounting tales told to her by New Orleans residents during her 1836 visit, claimed that the enslaved people of LaLaurie were observed to be singularly haggard and wretched when compared to other enslaved individuals; however, at least in public appearances, LaLaurie was seen to be generally polite to black people, and solicitous of the health of those enslaved. > Martineau also recounted other tales of LaLauries cruelty that were whispered amongst New Orleans residents around 1836, saying that (subsequent to the visit of the lawyer) one of LaLauries neighbors saw an eight-year-old enslaved girl fall to her death from the roof of the mansion while trying to avoid punishment from a whip-wielding LaLaurie. The girls body was subsequently buried on the mansion grounds. > According to Martineau, this incident led to an investigation of the LaLauries, in which they were found guilty of illegal cruelty and forced to forfeit nine enslaved people of the household. These nine enslaved people were bought back by the LaLauries through an intermediary relative, and thus returned to the mansion. Similarly, Martineau recounted stories that LaLaurie kept her cook starved and chained to the kitchen stove, beating her daughters when they attempted to feed themselves or others. > 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 LaLauries 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 peoples business. A version of this story, circulating in 1836 and recounted by Martineau, added that the enslaved people 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. >When the discovery of the abused and enslaved people became widely known, a mob of local citizens attacked the Royal Street mansion and demolished and destroyed everything upon which they could lay their hands. A sheriff and his officers were called to disperse the crowd, but, by the time the mob left, the property had sustained major damage, with scarcely any thing [remaining] but the walls. Maries slaves were taken to a local jail, where they were available for public viewing. The Bee reported that, by April 12, up to 4,000 people had attended to view the slaves to convince themselves of their sufferings. >The Pittsfield Sun, citing the New Orleans Advertiser, and writing several weeks after the evacuation of LaLauries quarters of her victims, claimed that two of the enslaved people found in the mansion had died following their rescue. It 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. These claims were repeated by Martineau in her 1838 book Retrospect of Western Travel, where she placed the number of unearthed bodies at two, including the aforementioned child, Lia

When you treat your slaves so badly that you offend the other slavers.

Ah that lady from American Horror Story. Kathy Bates portrayed her so well.

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