"He deserved it," said Malouet; "Oge was a criminal and an assassin." "If Oge be guilty," replied Gregoire, "so are we all; if he who claimed liberty for his brothers perished justly on the scaffold, then all Frenchmen who resemble us should mount there also." XII.
Oge's blood bubbled silently in the hearts of all the mulatto race.

They swore to avenge him.

The blacks were an army all ready for the massacre; the signal was given to them by the men of colour.

In one night 60,000 slaves, armed with torches and their working tools, burnt down all their masters' houses in a circuit of six leagues round the Cape.

The whites were murdered; women, children, old men--nothing escaped the long-repressed fury of the blacks.