The rights of man, commented upon by vengeance, became the catechism of all dwellings.
The whites trembled; terror urged them to violence.

The blood of the mulatto Oge and his accomplices, shed by M.de Blanchelande, governor of San Domingo and the colonial council, sowed every where despair and conspiracy.
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Oge, deputed to Paris by the men of colour to assert their rights in the Constituent Assembly, had become known to Brissot, Raynal, Gregoire, and was affiliated with them to the Society of the Friends of the Blacks.
Passing thence into England, he became known to the admirable philanthropist, Clarkson.

Clarkson and his friend at this time were pleading the cause of the emancipation of the negroes: they were the first apostles of that religion of humanity who believed that they could not raise their hands purely towards God, so long as those hands retained a link of that chain which holds a race of human beings in degradation and in slavery.

The association with these men of worth expanded Oge's mind.

He had come to Europe only to defend the interest of the mulattoes; he now took up with warmth the more liberal and holy cause of all the blacks; he devoted himself to the liberty of all his brethren.