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International English Language Quarterly
Volume 3, 2015 - Issue 2: Making Self, Making Sense
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À Cristoforo Colombo (III) / George Boyer Vashon Drafts “Vincent Ogé”

 

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1. German for “Attrition”.

2. German for “Annihilate”.

3. On 31 August 1853, in Syracuse, NY, Vashon (1824–1878), a pioneering African-American lawyer, wrote a fragmentary ballad in praise of Ogé, a Métis hero of the Haitian Revolution, executed by the enemy French at Cap-Français in March 1791. See Joan Sherman, African-American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology (1992), pp. 153–154, 165.

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