Vincent Ogé
Haitian-born revolutionary, merchant, military officer and goldsmith (1755–1764) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vincent Ogé (c. 1757 – 6 February 1791) was a Creole[1] revolutionary, merchant, military officer and goldsmith who had a leading role in a failed uprising against French colonial rule in the colony of Saint-Domingue in 1790. A mixed-race member of the colonial elite, Ogé's revolt occurred just before the Haitian Revolution, which resulted in the colony's independence from France, and left a contested legacy in post-independence Haiti.
Vincent Ogé | |
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Born | c. 1757 |
Died | February 6, 1791 (aged 33–34) Cap‑Français, Saint-Domingue |
Cause of death | Execution by breaking wheel |
Occupation(s) | Merchant, military officer and goldsmith |
Known for | Leading a failed uprising against French colonial rule |
Parent(s) | Jacques Ogé Angélique Ossé |
Born on Saint-Domingue into a family of the planter class, Ogé was sent at the age of eleven to the city of Bordeaux, France by his parents to be apprenticed to a goldsmith. Returning to the colony after seven years, he settled down in Cap‑Français as a coffee merchant in the employ of his uncle, acquiring partial ownership of his family's plantation. By the 1780s, Ogé's business dealings had made him the richest merchant of African descent in the city.
In 1788, Ogé travelled to France to both clear his debts and bring several lawsuits his family was engaged in before the Conseil du Roi. A year later, the French Revolution began, and he joined the revolutionary camp. After absentee white planters rejected his proposals for abolishing discriminatory colonial laws against free people of colour, he joined an advocacy group whose members demanded political representation in the national assembly.
On March 1790, deputies of the assembly approved a law granting voting rights to free people of colour in French colonies. In the same month, Ogé returned to Saint-Domingue, where he rebelled against the colonial government after it refused implement the law. The uprising was suppressed, and Ogé was captured and executed.