Jean Baptiste Point de Sable was the founder of modern Chicago and its first #black resident. Point de Sable was his chosen legal name; he was never called Du Sable during his lifetime. Point was an inseparable element of his name, which he had assumed by 1778. The prosperous farm he had at the mouth […]
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