According to the latest population census, the city of Chicago, Illinois, is classified as the third largest American city in terms of population density. Moreover, this city is characterized by an important economic, cultural and scientific position and occupies an important position in the field of American trade.
In addition, the eighteenth century Chicago originated.
For years, the subject of the identity of the Chicago founder’s identity has caused confusion among historians who in the past century to identify the African man Jean -BAPTISTE POINTE Du SABLE as the true father of Chicago.
Jean-Patist Point de Sable was born between 1745 and 1750 in the Saint-Marc region, in the French St.
Dominge colony, to a French father who worked in the field of navigation and a mother of African descent that was transferred among the caravans of African slaves to the north of the American continent.
With the limits of the year 1765, Jean -Patist Point de Sable in New Orleans, which was then a Spanish colony. In the next period, the latter climbed the Mississippi to reach the ground of the current state of Illinois.
There, this man of African origins built a house in the village of PEORIA.
Soon after, Jean -Batist Point de Sable moved towards the current lands of Chicago, where he built his second home at the limits of 1779, about 25 years ago, on the date of the construction of the Fort Dearborn Fort, and a commercial station on the northern bank of the Chicago River. The latter took advantage of this commercial station to supply fishermen, merchants and indigenous people.
Gradually, Jean -Batist Point de Sable achieved great trade success.
Thanks to him, the roots of the first permanent colony appeared in this area. Also, this brown man married a woman who descended from the indigenous tribes. Thanks to this, the latter won an important place in the region.
During the American Independence War, Jean -Batist Point de Sable and imprisoned by the British who questioned George Washington. During the year 1784, Du Saleeq regained his freedom again to gradually return to his previous activity.
For unclear reasons, he sold Patist Point de Sable in 1800 his property to the French Canadian trader Jean La Lime before leaving Chicago. For his part, Jean Lim Lim sold what he bought to the merchant descending from the British Lower Canada region John Kinzie. With his departure from Chicago, de Sable returned towards Piuria before settling later in the state of Missouri.
For many years, historians neglected the personality of the real founder of Chicago and described John Kinsey as Chicago’s father for two main reasons represented in the African origins of the Batist de Sable committees and the beginning of writing the history of the region in 1804 by John Kinsey’s friends.
After a set of historical research and the beginning of the disappearance of racist feature in the United States of America, the city of Chicago recognized in 1968 by Patist Point de Sable, who died in 1818, and ranked it as the city founder instead of John Kinsey..
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