[Mark in the Old South]

Oh yes I just remembered another old South story. Your point about Legree being a yankee (remember he was a fictional character) reminded me.

In New Orleans there was a wealthy doctor and his wife who lived in a large mansion in the French Quarter (it still stands, but is a private home) They lived secretive lives but there were all sorts of rumors, people would hear screams and cries coming for the home. One night a slave in the dungeon managed to start a fire. The French Quarter being a tightly packed city (and having burned once before) people rushed in to put out the fire, thereby saving their own homes. The site they found shocked them (I wonder if this story was the inspiration for Legree) It so enraged the WHITE community there was a riot. The doctor and his wife barely escaped with their lives. In fact they had to leave the country that very night.

Of course people had a sense of outrage then. They lived with slavery, even promoted it but there were limits. I wonder what they would have done to an abortion doctor?

[SedVictaCatoni]

They lived with slavery, even promoted it but there were limits.

Fortunately, tens of thousands of emissaries from civilization finally fought their way down to Louisiana and reset the "limits" to "if nobody has slaves, nobody has dungeons."

[netmilsmom]

>>The site they found shocked them <<

I must have missed it. What was it????

[stands2reason]

The LaLauries (shudder). The man was a doctor. Liked to perform "experiments" on his slaves.

Made Mengele seem unimaginative.