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Marie Delphine LaLaurie

On April 10th, 1834, a fire broke out at a large mansion in Royal Street, New Orleans. It was the home of a local well known socialite called Marie Delphine LaLaurie – but what was found ...

The Last Faces Of American Slavery 1930s

In the 1920s and 1930s, domestic interest in US slavery was rekindled, and as part of the Federal Writers’ Project of the Work Progress Administration, more than 2,000 first-person accounts of slavery were collected, as well ...