Du Sable

American  

[doo sah-bluh, sahb, dyoo, dy sah-bl^uh] / du ˈsɑ blə, ˈsɑb, dyu, dü ˈsɑ blə /

noun

1. Jean Baptiste Pointe 1745?–1818, U.S. pioneer trader, born in Haiti: early settler of Chicago.

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Example Sentences

The panel recommended the city award $50,000 grants to artists for the development of ideas, including monuments honoring Pilsen Latinos, Mahalia Jackson, the Mother Jones Heritage Project, Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable and Kitihawa, his wife and a local Potawatomi woman.

From Seattle Times

What I didn’t know was that du Sable was also the first Black man in Chicago to get locked up.

From Washington Post

Jean Baptiste Point du Sable was arrested, in 1779, by British soldiers who fought to conquer the land that its native people called Eschecagou.

From Washington Post

I grew up in Chicago raised by an activist mother who force-fed her kids race pride, so of course I knew that the city’s first nonnative settler was a Black man, the Haitian fur trapper Jean Baptiste Point du Sable.

From Washington Post

It’s right there on the corner of Michigan and Wacker - did you ever notice? - adorning a bridge now named in honor of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a Black man who was the city’s first non-native settler.

From Washington Times