Vincent Ogé, surrendered to Saint-Domingue by the …
Years: 1791 - 1791
February
Vincent Ogé, surrendered to Saint-Domingue by the Spanish governor of Santo Domingo, is taken prisoner along with other leaders.
He and Chavannes, tried and found guilty, are brutally executed by being broken on the wheel in a public square at Le Cap.
Dozens more of his men are severely punished in February 1791.
Their treatment served only to heat up the already boiling cauldron of dissatisfaction among free men of color and slaves in the colony.
Ogé becomes an important symbol of the injustices of a colonial slave society that wants to restrict the benefits of the French Revolution to whites only.
The petits blancs subsequently go on a rampage, executing more than two hundred other mulattoes who had no connection to the Ogé Rebellion.
