Delphine LaLaurie's Dark Legacy of Torment Unveiled-Episode 19

The haunted history of the LaLaurie Mansion is one of the best known stories of haunted tours in the City of New Orleans, Louisiana. It tells a story of the brutal excess use of slavery in a horrific and horrible state for several generations. This story has backdated to up to 150 years and is considered the most haunted location in the French Quarter.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 serial killer who was believed to have tortured and murdered slaves in her household.

Sources:
- Morrow Long, Carolyn (2012). https://books.google.com/books?id=2NAQYAAACAAJ&q=madame+lalaurie+Mistress+of+the+Haunted+House. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0813038063.
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Books:
- Arthur, Stanley Clisby (1936). https://books.google.com/books?id=Fzeevi01QmIC&q=delphine+macarty. New Orleans, LA: Harmanson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0788427229. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC_(identifier) https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19380621.
- Cable, George Washington (1888). http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12577/12577-h/12577-h.htm#pg192. New York: The Century Co. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-559-09492-2.
- Castellanos, Henry C; Kelleher Schafer, Judith; Reinecke, George F (1895). https://books.google.com/books?id=aF4HM54IqYMC&q=New+Orleans+as+it+was. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8071-3209-8.
- Cosner Love, Victoria; Shannon, Lorelei (2011). https://books.google.com/books?id=B6UHggJ5ORcC&q=Mad+madame+lalaurie. Charleston, SC: The History Press. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1609491994.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot]
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- DeLavigne, Jeanne (1946). https://books.google.com/books?id=RkRCAAAAIAAJ&q=Ghost+Stories+of+Old+New+Orleans. New York; Toronto: Rinehart & Co. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC_(identifier) https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5128595.
- Heinan, Timothy (2012). https://books.google.com/books?id=Y-&q=L%27immortalite+Madame+Lalaurie+and+the+Voodoo+Queen. Bellevue,WA: On Demand Publishing, LLC-Create Space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0615634715.
- King, Grace Elizabeth (1921). https://archive.org/details/creolefamiliesof00king. New York: MacMillan & Co. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87511-142-4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OL_(identifier) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL13489529M.
- Martineau, Harriet (1838). https://books.google.com/books?id=Po_qzUgr_80C&q=retrospect+of+western+travel+volume+2&pg=PA1. Vol. 2. London: Saunders & Otley. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC_(identifier) https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80223671.
- Long, Carolyn Morrow (2012). https://books.google.com/books?id=2NAQYAAACAAJ&q=madame+lalaurie+Mistress+of+the+Haunted+House. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0813038063.
- Saxon, Lyle (1928). https://books.google.com/books?id=aO5ObIGBsIEC&q=%22Louis+LaLaurie%22&pg=PA204. New York, London: The Century Co. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781455604029. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC_(identifier) https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/421892.
- Smith, Kalila Katherina (1998). Haunted History Tours presents... Journey Into Darkness: Ghosts & Vampires of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA: De Simonin Publications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-883100-04-6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC_(identifier) https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43305415.
Newspaper and Magazines:
- http://nobee.jefferson.lib.la.us/Vol-009/04_1834/1834_04_0034.pdf (PDF). New Orleans Bee. April 11, 1834. – The relevant text appears at the top-left of the linked scan. A transcript of this article can be found here https://web.archive.org/web/20101116011843/http://www.nola.com/lalaurie/archives/fire1.html for ease of reading.
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