Jean Baptiste Point du Sable #1171

Caption from poster__      Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable " A black man from Haiti name Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable a fur trader, founder a settlement called Eschikagou on the north bank  of the chicago River.  He was not officially recognized as the city founder until 1968."     Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable (c. 1745 - August 28, 1818) was the first non-native settler in the area which is now Chicago, Illinois. He was long ignored by historians, partly because he was a Haitian and not white, and partly because the early histories were written by the friends and descendants of John Kinzie, to whom du Sable sold his house in 1800. Du Sable built his first house in the 1770s, thirty years before Fort Dearborn was established on the banks of the Chicago River. By the time he sold to Kinzie's frontman, Jean La Lime, his property included a house, two barns, a horsemill, a bakehouse, a poultry house, a dairy and a smokehouse. The interior was richly appointed as well. Du Sable married Kitt