Vincent Ogé

Vincent Ogé - as a member of the Friends of the Negro (a Mulatto organization), Ogé had been frustrated by the Assembly's refusal to extend the Rights of Man to mulattoes, and he decided to take matters into his own hands. Ogé got money from Thomas Clarkson in London and proceeded to purchase firearms in the US, (James p. 73) sailing then to Saint-Domingue to attempt a Mulatto uprising. Unfortunately, though an eloquent speaker, Ogé was no general. His exceptionally brutal (Kennedy p. 136) torture and death (James pp. 73 - 74) only served to heat up an already rapidly boiling cauldron of dissatisfaction.

References

• James, C.L.R. (1989). The Black Jacobins. Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. (2nd Ed., Revised) New York: Vintage Press. ISBN 0-679-72467-2.
• Kennedy, Roger G. (1989). Orders from France: The Americans and the French in a Revolutionary World, 1780-1820. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-55592-9.