Free-colored leaders initially refused to mobilize slaves

Evidence

Ogé had assiduously avoided mobilizing slaves to join him and had insisted in his letters that he was not against slavery. But others who fought with him, notably Chavannes, seem to have been more tempted to turn to the slaves as allies. Before he was executed, the desperate Ogé had apparently confessed that throughout the colony there were men of color who were hoping to mobilize the slaves in support of their revolution. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 303

Categorization

• XREF: Foreshadows the later turn to slave mobilization; key to the arc the reader is tracing.