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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

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“#JeanBaptistePointDuSable was born in San Marc, Haiti, in 1745. Not very much is known about Du Sable’s early life. It is known, however, that Du Sable’s mother was probably killed by the Spanish when he was ten. In 1764 Du Sable and his friend Jacques Clemorgan moved from Haiti to New Orleans. Du Sable was eventually thankful for moving to New Orleans because it was here that he and his friend Clemorgan met their future partner of a trading post in New Orleans, and later in what would become Peoria, Illinois. The young man Du Sable and Clemorgan met was Choctaw, a Native American from the Great Lakes. At the time, Choctaw was working at a Catholic mission.Du Sable, Clemorgan, and Choctaw later moved to Illinois. It was here that Du Sable and Clemorgan learned the skills they would use later at their trading post. Choctaw taught them things of value for their entire life. They learned how to set traps and where to find martens, small animals trapped for their fur. The three men started a trading post. Du Sable and Choctaw spent their time trapping in the woods, while Clemorgan devoted his time to hauling pelts downstream to New Orleans. While trapping one spring day with Choctaw, Du Sable met Chief Pontiac, an important Native American leader. Little did they know that they would gain the respect of all the Indians of the Midwest in the weeks to come. Pontiac asked Du Sable and Clemorgan to arrange a peace treaty between the Ottawa, Miami, and Illinois tribes. Du Sable eagerly arranged the meeting in order to restore peace between the tribes. Du Sable and Choctaw stayed a little longer than expected, but Du Sable was thankful, for it was during the stay that he met Catherine, a Potawatomi. Du Sable and Catherine were later married. They had two children and lived in a cabin built by Du Sable and Choctaw. This cabin was built on a waterway that is now called the Chicago River. But Du Sable called it Checagou, the name given it by the Indians. Du Sable became well-known for trading goods throughout the Midwest. He expanded his cabin to a trading post, which later became a small community with a church, school, and store.” https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsx4J6mg6f1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ax5ub9ccn44p

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Jean Baptiste Point du Sable is regarded as the first permanent resident of what later became Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the "Founder of Chicago". There are no records of Point du Sable's life prior to the 1770s. Though it is known from sources during his life that he was of African descent, his birth year, place of birth, and parents are unknown. A historical novel published in 1953 helped to popularize the commonly recited claim that he was born in 1745 in Saint-Marc in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti). #JeanBaptisteSable #JeanBaptistePointDuSable #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM (at New Jersey)

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The monument to Jean Baptiste Point-Du Sable (Haitian African - American) who along with his Potawatomi wife Kithihawa celebrates his being the founder of the city of Chicago.. It stands opposite of Trump Tower (no comment) 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸#knowledgeispower #chicago #jeanbaptistepointdusable #illinois #blackhistoryisamericashistory #statues#america #wetoosingamerica #settlers #history #americanhistory #landscapephotography #picoftheday #garykirkbrown #garybrownphotography #newyorkphotographer #miamiphotogragraphers #midwestphotography (at Chicago, Illinois)