Ogé warned that refusing rights to free-coloreds would provoke a slave revolt

Evidence

Both Raimond and Ogé had begun this crusade for rights by presenting their demands to the planters of the Club Massiac. Raimond had spoken of a plan, which he had put forth to the Colonial Ministry in the 1780s, by which rights would be granted only to “quadroons” who were born of legitimate parents and could claim at least two generations of freedom behind them. In a separate meeting Ogé presented a bolder plan both for the granting of rights to free-coloreds and for the gradual abolition of slavery, declaring that it was the only way to prevent a revolt among the slaves. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 280

Categorization

• XREF: Ogé’s prophecy that exclusion would spark revolt anticipates the later slave uprising that becomes the pivot of the revolution’s narrative arc—a classic forewarning payoff.
• QUESTION: What actually became of Vincent Ogé’s own revolt and execution later in 1790-91—this is a thread worth tracing.