(HAITI) Vincent Ogé Jeune Colon de St Domingue

Sale 2598 - Lot 275

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(HAITI.) Vincent Ogé, Jeune Colon de St. Domingue. Mezzotint portrait, 5 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches; moderate foxing and mat toning; uncut. No place, circa 1791

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Vincent Ogé (1755-1791) was a wealthy free mulatto who led a 1790 revolt to secure voting rights for free men of color in Haiti, ending in his torture and execution in February 1791, just months before the large uprisings that led to the Haitian Revolution. The full caption reads "Vincent Ogé, jeune colon de St Domingue, il aime la liberté comme il sait la defendre"--a young colonist from Saint-Domingue who loves his freedom and knows how to defend it. The engraver was Gilles-Louis Chrétien, working from a physiognotrace portrait by Jean-Baptiste Fouquet.