Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
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Jean Baptiste Point du Sable is regarded as the first permanent settler of what would become Chicago, Illinois, United States and is recognized as the city's founder. The site where he settled near th
There are no known portraits of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable made during his lifetime. This depiction is taken from History of Chicago (1884).
The DuSable Museum in Washington Park
Saint-Domingue
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Saint-Domingue was a French colony in the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the area of modern-day Haiti, from 1659 to 1803. The name derives from the Spanish main city on the
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
…and French-Canadian origin. A historical novel published in 1953 helped to popularize the claim that Point du Sable was born in 1745 in Saint-Marc in Saint-Domingue (which later became Haiti after its independence from the French colonial empire). If he was born outside continental North America, there are competing…
A Creole servant boy and his mother
Drawing of a slave sale aboard the Marie Séraphique in the waters off Cap‑Français, 1773
Jean-Baptiste Belley, an affranchi who became a rich planter, elected member of the Estates General for Saint-Domingue, and later Deputy of the French National Convention
A rich Creole planter and his wife