2005-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/31/2005
Periodical, Gentleman’s Magazine, January thru June 1790, six issues, 580 pps,uncolliataed but appears complete, boards present but detached, split at spine. From the February issue, the report of a slave insurrection in Port au Prince, St. Domingo. This is probably referring to the first mulatto rebellion in Saint-Domingue. The rebellion, led by Vincent Ogé in 1790.Ogé was joined by his friend Jean-Baptiste Chavannes.The two men soon acquired an armed following of 400 men who threatened reprisal against the authorities in Cap Haïtien unless the freedom decree was observed. An attempt by 500 men of the National guard to disperse the Ogé group was repulsed. Next, a group of 1.500 regular troops armed with artillery forced the group to disband. The two comrades and some of their followers fled to the Spanish part of the island. Ogé and Chavannes were captured, they stood trial and were condemned to an excruciating death on the wheel. Twenty-one of their adherents were hung and another 30 sentenced to the galleys. Thus perished, on Feb. 25, 1791, two of the early, though relatively minor, heroes of Haiti.
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