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Vincent Ogé
Vincent Ogé was a merchant, military officer and revolutionary of Saint-Domingue who led a failed uprising against French colonial rule in 1790, shortly before the Haitian Revolution. Born at Dondon to a white French father and a free woman of colour, he became the richest merchant of African descent in Cap-Français and part-owner of his family's slave plantation. In revolutionary Paris he campaigned with Julien Raimond for the rights of free people of colour, while supporting slavery. When the colony refused to apply the law of March 1790, he and Jean-Baptiste Chavannes raised about 300 free men of colour; captured, he was broken on the wheel on 6 February 1791.
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