Mar 30, 2017 - Sale 2441

Sale 2441 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
A GREAT UNSUNG HERO OF HAITI'S REVOLUTION (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) HAITI. Vincent Oge, jeaune colon de St Domingues. Circular strong impression of this rare hand-colored portrait; 5 cm in diameter, printed on a larger sheet, 8 x 11 cm; a couple of small stains. Paris Fouqes, circa 1790-1791

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a rare and possibly unique portrait of one of haiti's revolutionary heroes. In 1789. Oge was in Paris when the French Revolution broke out. As the National Assembly was trying to form a new government, Oge approached a group of absentee Haitian landholders, proposing mulatto equality and an easement of the racial laws that included the mulatto. They refused him, and in the summer of 1790, Oge began a circuitous return to St. Domingue, via London, and Charleston, SC. His purpose was coordinate with abolitionists and other fellow travelers to form a strategy and to buy arms. When returned to St Domingue he was met with likeminded friends, and a force of about 700 armed men was put together. The Oge uprising lasted about a month from October to December. Oge and his confederate Chavannes were caught by the French authorities and died a horrible death by being broken on the wheel. The actual Haitian revolt began a year later.