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1790-03-28

National Assembly decree on freedmen’s rights

Haitian

Dondon saw the birth of Vincent Ogé, who was one of the first martyrs of liberty. He had gone to France, in 1789, to claim the exercise of political rights for the affranchis. He returned to Saint-Domingue, resolved to obtain the execution of the advantages granted to his caste. He landed at the Cap in the night of 23 October 1790. That very night, he went to Dondon, where his family and his property were. Orders were immediately given to arrest him. But Ogé gathered a few friends, among others Jean-Baptiste Chavanne, a native of the Grande-Rivière du Nord, and communicated to them his plan to demand by force of arms the recognition of their rights proclaimed by the decree of the National Assembly of 28 March 1790. At the same time he wrote to the affranchis of the West and of the Artibonite to urge them to act as he did, and to Governor de Peinier to entreat him to execute this decree; but the colonists did not leave him the time to concert his means. A patrol was sent to Dondon to arrest him. Ogé found himself compelled to take up arms with 300 affranchis. At the head of this…

Rouzier tells this under the entry Dondon.

Source  ·  p. t. I, p. 322 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. I) (1892), p. t. I, p. 322