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Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable was a black pioneer, trader and founder of the settlement that later became the city of Chicago.
Du Sable, was from St. Marc, Sainte-Domingue [now Haiti]. His French father had moved there and married a Black woman, he is believed to have been a freeborn. Around the 1770s he went to the Great Lakes area of North America, settling on the shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Chicago River, with his Potawatomi wife, Kittihawa (Catherine). His defiance to the crown led to his arrest in 1779 by the British, who took him to Fort Mackinac. There he managed a trading post called the Pinery on the St. Clair River in present-day Michigan, after which he returned to the site of Chicago. By 1790 he establishment an important link in the region's fur and grain trade. In 1800 he sold out and moved to Missouri, where he continued as a farmer and trader until his death. But his 20-year residence on the shores of Lake Michigan had established his title as Father of Chicago. Jean Du Sable died Aug. 28th 1818 in St. Charles, Mo.
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable.
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