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#JeanBaptistePointduSable #chicago #thefounder #1700s #frontiertrader #settler #haiti🇭🇹 #nbaallstarweekend2020 It's All Star weekend in Chicago. The city founded by a Haitian brother. Jean Baptiste entered the US either through French Louisiana or French Canada, it's never been made clear. Or what year he came. Although it was written that his identification papers were lost and he was injured on the voyage to New Orleans, and was almost enslaved. French Jesuit priests protected him until he was healthy enough to travel. DuSable migrated north, up the Mississippi river, later settling in an area near present-day Peoria, Illinois. He also lived in what is now Michigan and Indiana as well during the 1770s. What is clear is that he was born in 1745 in Saint-Marc in Saint-Domingue, Haiti. Several accounts state that he was handsome and well educated lol the descriptors from the past are funny. A persons look shows up often in them. One in particular was a speech made by Arent Schuyler DePeyster, British commandant from 1774 to 1779 at Fort Michilimackinac. Jean Baptiste definitely wasn't a made up figure. Another account detailing the American Revolutionary War speaks of him. After he was arrested as a suspected partisan at Trail Creek by British troops and imprisoned briefly at Fort Michilimackinac. Before the close of the 1780s, he had settled on the north bank of the Chicago river. He married a Potawatomi woman named Kitihawa in the 1770s, later on October 27, 1788 they were married up under a Catholic ceremony. They went on to have two children, a son and daughter. He supported his family as a frontier trader. By 1790 Du Sable’s settlement had become an important link in the region’s fur and grain trade. His granddaughter was the first child born in the city we call Chicago today in 1796. In his honor we have DuSable High school in Bronzeville. On Chicago's south side there's the DuSable Museum of African American History. DuSable Harbor is located in the heart of downtown Chicago at the foot of Randolph st and DuSable Park is a 3.24 acre urban park in Chicago awaiting redevelopment. Take the L ADOS.. https://www.instagram.com/p/B8mNGzOBHUq/?igshid=p3pznkzrpjws

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#JeanBaptistePointduSable #chicago #thefounder #1700s #frontiertrader #settler #haiti🇭🇹 I don't know how or why so many of us are so quick to repeat anything, but this nonsense has gotten out of control. There's an epidemic like amount of black people in America talking about there were no black immigrants in America before 1965. This society has done a thorough job of making sure some of us are not only dumbed down but misinformed. A lot of information that's always been readily available is deemed as hidden. Jean Baptiste entered the US either through French Louisiana or French Canada, it's never been made clear. Or what year he came. Although it was written that his identification papers were lost and he was injured on the voyage to New Orleans, and was almost enslaved. French Jesuit priests protected him until he was healthy enough to travel. DuSable migrated north, up the Mississippi river, later settling in an area near present-day Peoria, Illinois. He also lived in what is now Michigan and Indiana as well during the 1770s. What is clear is that he was born in 1745 in Saint-Marc in Saint-Domingue, Haiti. Several accounts state that he was handsome and well educated lol the descriptors from the past are funny. A persons look shows up often in them. One in particular was a speech made by Arent DePeyster, British commandant from 1774 to 1779 at Fort Michilimackinac. Jean Baptiste definitely wasn't a made up figure. Another account detailing the American Revolutionary War speaks of him. After he was arrested as a suspected partisan at Trail Creek by British troops and imprisoned briefly at Fort Michilimackinac. Before the close of the 1780s, he had settled on the north bank of the Chicago river. He married a Potawatomi woman named Kitihawa in the 1770s, later on October 27, 1788 they were married up under a Catholic ceremony. They went in to have two children, a son and daughter. He supported his family as a frontier trader. By 1790 Du Sable’s settlement had become an important link in the region’s fur and grain trade. His granddaughter was the first child born in the city we call Chicago today in 1796. No black immigrants huh.. https://www.instagram.com/p/B1op7g8hx2Y/?igshid=m6y6mprpdl1z