1790-Oct.-28: Vincent Ogé, a free man of color, led a brief but significant armed uprising in Saint-Domingue to demand political rights for his class.

1790-Oct.-28: Vincent Ogé, a free man of color, led a brief but significant armed uprising in Saint-Domingue to demand political rights for his class. Although his revolt was focused on the rights of free people of color rather than general abolition, Julius S. Scott argues it catalyzed the revolutionary spirit across the island. Ogé had spent time in Paris, where he was influenced by the Society of the Friends of the Blacks, demonstrating the trans-Atlantic flow of radical thought. His subsequent capture and brutal execution in February 1791 became a powerful symbol of colonial intransigence and racial injustice. This event set the stage for the massive slave rebellion that would follow less than a year later.