Edward Covey
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Edward Covey
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Edward Louis Nicolas Covey is a member of the Sabbat.

American slave torturer during the American Civil War.

Brujah / Nosferatu / Malkavian / Ventrue

Biography


Ante Mordem

Covey was born in New Orleans, Spanish Louisiana in 1787, as one of five children. brought the family to New Orleans from Ireland around 1730, during the French colonial period. mother was known as "the widow Le Comte".

Both of Covey's parents were prominent in the town's European Creole community. His uncle by marriage was governor of the Spanish American provinces of Louisiana and Florida, and his cousin was mayor of New Orleans.

Slave owner

His slaves were observed to be "singularly haggard and wretched;" however, in public appearances Covey was seen to be generally polite to black people and solicitous of his slaves' health.

Public rumors about Covey's mistreatment of his slaves were sufficiently widespread that a local lawyer was dispatched to Royal Street to remind Covey of the laws for the upkeep of slaves.

Whipped slaves for even minor offenses. Some slaves killed themselves rather than face his brutal consequences.

An incident led to an investigation of Covey, in which he were found guilty of illegal cruelty and forced to forfeit nine slaves. These nine slaves were bought back by Covey through an intermediary relative, and returned to his service. Covey kept his cook chained to the kitchen stove, and beat family members when they attempted to feed the slaves.

Mansion fire

In 1834, a fire broke out in the Covey mansion, starting in the kitchen. When the police and fire marshals got there, they found the cook, a seventy-year-old woman, chained to the stove by her ankle. She later said that she had set the fire as a suicide attempt because she feared being punished. She said that slaves taken to the uppermost room never came back.

Bystanders responding to the fire attempted to enter the slave quarters to ensure that everyone had been evacuated. Upon being refused the keys by Covey, the bystanders broke down the doors to the slave quarters and found "seven slaves, more or less horribly mutilated … suspended by the neck, with their limbs apparently stretched and torn from one extremity to the other", who claimed to have been imprisoned there for some months.

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Civil War

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