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In New Orleans, Delphine LaLaurie was arrested & tried at least once for mistreatment of slaves & her house was burned down by an angry mob in 1834. What made her level of brutality so scandalous & what separated it, legally and socially, from the "acceptable" brutality of day-to-day slave life?

by /u/screwyoushadowban in /r/AskHistorians

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