Vincent Ogé (c. 1755 - 1791) was a wealthy free man of color and the instigator of a revolt against white colonial authority in French Saint-Domingue that lasted from October to December 1790 in the area outside Cap-Français, the colony's main city. Saint-Domingue was a French Colony on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola from 1659 to 1804 when it became the independent nation of Year 1790 ( MDCCXC) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Cap-Haïtien ( Okap or Kapayisyen in Kréyòl) is a city of about 130000 people on the north coast of Haiti. The Ogé revolt of 1790 foretold the massive slave uprising of August 1791 that became the Haïtian Revolution. Year 1791 ( MDCCXCI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The Revolution (1791–1804 was the most successful of African Slave rebellions in the Western Hemisphere [1]
History
Ogé was a wealthy free man of color, probably of one-quarter African descent and three-quarters French ancestry. Vincent Ogé, (c 1755-91 was a free man of color in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Gens de couleur is a French term meaning "people of color The son of a wealthy white man, he owned valuable urban property and traded coffee and imported French products in the colony. In 1789 he was in Paris on business when the French Revolution broke out. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city The French Revolution (1789–1799 was a period of political and social upheaval in the History of France, during which the French governmental structure previously an By August of that year he had made a proposal to a group of colonial planters living in Paris to change the racial laws in the colony discriminating against wealthy light-skinned men like Ogé. Independently, Julien Raimond, with a similar background in Saint-Domingue, spoke to this group at about the same time. Julien Raimond (1744-1801 was an indigo planter in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haïti) When their ideas were rebuffed by the colonists, the two men began to attend meetings of a group of Parisian free blacks headed by Étienne Dejoly, a white lawyer and a member of the Society of the Friends of the Blacks, an anti-slavery society founded in 1788 in Paris by Jacques Pierre Brissot. The Society of the Friends of the Blacks ( French: Société des amis des Noirs or Amis des noirs) was a group of French men mostly white, which Jacques Pierre Brissot (15 January 1754 &ndash 31 October 1793 who assumed the name of de Warville, was a leading member of the Girondist movement during the
Raimond and Ogé quickly became the leaders of this group, along with Dejoly. They began to pressure the French National Assembly to give them representation and to force the colonists to allow voting rights for wealthy members of their class. The French National Assembly. The other is the Senate ( “Sénat”) Both men owned slaves back in Saint-Domingue and both claimed they did not want to weaken slavery. Instead, they said, making free men of color equal to whites would strengthen their devotion to France and make the system of slavery more secure. In October 1790 Ogé returned to Saint-Domingue determined to obtain voting privileges for free men of color, whether by persuasion or force. [2]
After he arrived back in Saint-Domingue he put pressure on the colonial governor and other authorities to guarantee the voting rights of wealthy free men of color. When they refused, he gathered about 300 men around him in the parish of Grande-Rivière and successfully defeated several detachments of colonial militia sent out from Cap Français to punish him.
Eventually, however, Ogé and his rebels were flushed out by a larger force of professional soldiers and forced across the border into the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo de Guzmán (known as Santo Domingo population 2084852 (Metro (2003 estimated 2253437 (Metro in 2006 is the Capital and largest city in the Spanish authorities returned him to Saint-Domingue. Ogé and several of his accomplices were brutally tortured on the public square of Cap Français and dozens more men were severely punished in February 1791.
Footnotes
- ^ Rogozinski, Jan (1999). A Brief History of the Caribbean, Revised, New York: Facts on File, Inc. , p. 167. ISBN 0-8160-3811-2.
- ^ The Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803. Retrieved on 2007-08-03. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 8 - Roman Empire General Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.
External links
- The Louverture Project: "Vincent Ogé"
- "Motion Made by Vincent Ogé the Younger to the Assembly of Colonists, 1789"
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