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Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x1x9; University Press of Florida [Published Date: 2012]. Hardcover, 258 pp. First printing (with full number line). Good+ in good+ dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Light damp-staining to end-papers and half-title page (looks like a water spill). Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and light creasing and wrinkling to edges. Red damp-staining from water on back side of jacket as well. NOT price clipped Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From front jacket flap] The legend of Madame Delphine Lalaurie, a wealthy society matron and accused slave torturer, has haunted New Orleans for nearly two hundred years. Her macabre tale is frequently retold, and her French Quarter mansion has been referred to as the most haunted house in the city. Rumors that Lalaurie abused her slaves were already in circulation when fire broke out in the kitchen and slave quarters of her home in 1834. Bystanders intent on rescuing anyone still inside forced their way past Lalaurie and her husband into the burning service wing. Once inside, they discovered seven wretched negroes starved, chained, and mutilated. The crowd's temper quickly shifted from concern to outrage, assuming that the Lalauries had been willing to allow their slaves to perish in the flames rather than risk discovery of the horrific conditions in which they were kept. Forced to flee the city, Delphine Lalaurie's guilt went unquestioned during her lifetime, and tales of her actions have become increasingly fanciful and grotesque over the decades. Stories of perverted tortures, of burying slaves alive, of cutting off their limbs have continued to plague her legacy. A meticulous researcher of New Orleans history, Carolyn Long disentangles the threads of fact and legend that have intertwined over the decades. Was Madame Lalaurie a sadistic abuser? Mentally ill? Or merely the victim of an unfair and sensationalist press? Using carefully documented eyewitness testimony, archival documents, and family letters, Long recounts Lalaurie's life from legal troubles before the fire through the scandal of her exile to France to her death in Paris in 1849...
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Carolyn Morrow Long. Very good in Very good jacket. xii, 258, [2] pages. Includes Full Page Map of Downtown New Orleans, Photographs, Sketches, Preface, Definition of Terms, Introduction, Conclusion, Epilogue, Acknowledgments, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Signed by the author on the title page. Signed by author sticker on front of DJ. Carolyn Morrow Long began visiting New Orleans in 1978, and became fascinated by the it's history and culture. She is the author of Spiritual Merchants: Religion, Magic, and Commerce, A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau, Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House, and Famille Vve Paris née Laveau: The Tomb of Marie Laveau in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. Retired from the Smithsonian Institution, she writes articles and gives presentations about New Orleans Afro-Catholic spiritual practices and Creole families. Long drew the cover illustrations for the Laveau and Lalaurie books. Using carefully documented eyewitness testimony, archival documents, and family letters, the author recounts the life of Madame Laurie from legal troubles before fire broke out in the kitchen and slave quarters of her home in 1834. Delphine Laurie was forced to flee the city, and her guilt went unquestioned during her lifetime. Stories of perverted tortures, of burying slaves alive, of cutting off their limbs, have continued to plague her legacy. Using carefully documented eyewitness testimony, archival documents, and family letters, Long recounts Lalaurie life from legal troubles before the fire, through the scandal of her exile to France to her death in Paris in 1849. "Madame Lalaurie is scrupulously researched. It is difficult to envision anyone producing a more thorough account of Delphine Lalaurie, her family, and the home in which she lived. The story of the woman and her misdeeds is a captivating one, and the horror of her crimes is shocking even today. This is Long's best book."-Jeffrey E. Anderson.
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