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'''Vincent Ogé''', (c. 1755-91), was a [[gens de couleur|free man of color]] in the French colony of [[Saint-Domingue]]. Though he was not a slave, Ogé was an important figure in the events that led to the outbreak of the [[Haitian Revolution]] in 1791. Ogé was the son of a white colonist and a [[mulatto]] woman. By the 1780s he owned valuable real estate in the major colonial city of [[Cap Français]], today's [[Cap Haitien]], as well as small boats that participated in the coastal trade. In the late 1780s he went to France on business, and became active in the [[French Revolution]]. In Paris he joined [[Julien Raimond]] in trying to convince the [[National Constituent Assembly|Constituent Assembly]] to overturn colonial racism against wealthy free men like himself. In October 1790, Ogé returned to Saint-Domingue, believing that at ambiguous law passed in March of that year had given him the right to vote in upcoming colonial elections. When the colonial governor [[Count de Blanchelande]] refused his demands for voting rights, Ogé and several hundred men of color armed themselves and won a few battles against colonial militias from Cap Français. Ultimately, they fled to Spanish territory to escape a large royal force. After receiving guarantees of their safety, they were turned back to the French. Ogé and his associates were brutally executed. He became a important symbol for both free people and slaves of the injustices of a colonial society that wanted to restrict the benefits of the French Revolution to whites. |
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* The Louverture Project: [http://thelouvertureproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Vincent_Ogé Vincent_Ogé] |
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[[Category:Executed revolutionaries|Ogé, Jacques Vincent]] |
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[[Category:History of Haiti|Ogé, Jacques Vincent]] |
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