Haitian History: Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (Chicago Chapter part I)

Haitian History is Black History, and we determine how the world remember it, thus how the world remembers us.

edited by Lawrence Gonzalez aka Kompa King

A video about the triumph of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, who founded Chicago, a place that defines character in the world today.

4081 productions rewinding reality for the better.

Edited by Lawrence Gonzalez
Voice intro featuring Mecca aka Grimo
Directed by Ecclesiast Guerriere
Assisted by Daniel Nicolas

Pics were found on the web.

a tribute to chicago and its best

Chicago is the largest city by population in the state of Illinois and the Midwest, and a dominant center of finance, industry and culture in the region. The city was long the "second city" (second in population to New York), and is currently the third-most populous city in the United States, with nearly 3 million people. The Chicago metropolitan area (commonly referred to as Chicagoland) has a population of over 9.7 million people in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, making it also the third largest metropolitan area in the U.S.[2] Adjacent to Lake Michigan, it is among the world's twenty-five largest urban areas by population, and rated an alpha world city by Loughborough University.[3]

Incorporated as a city in 1837 after being founded in 1833 at the site of a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed, it soon became a major transportation hub in North America and quickly became the transportation, financial and industrial center of the American Midwest. Today the city's attractions bring 44.2 million visitors annually.[4]

Chicago was once the capital of the railroad industry and until the 1960s the world's largest meatpacking facilities were at the Union Stock Yards. Chicago became notorious worldwide for its violent gangsters in the 1920s, most notably Al Capone, and for the political corruption in one of the longest lasting political machines in the nation. The city has long been a stronghold of the Democratic Party and has been home to many Democratic presidential candidates including the current presumptive nominee Barack Obama.

The name "Chicago" is the French rendering of the Miami-Illinois name shikaakwa, meaning "wild leek".[5][6][7] Etymologically, the sound /shikaakwa/ in Miami-Illinois literally means 'striped skunk', and was a reference to wild leek, or the smell of onions.[6] The name was initially applied to the river, but later came to denote what is presently the site of city. The sound Chicago is said[who?] to be the result of a French mis-transcription of the original sound by Louis Hennepin, a Catholic priest, missionary and explorer, who in 1683 first placed the place name 'Chicago' on a map.[citation needed]

During the mid-18th century the area was inhabited primarily by Potawatomis, who had taken the place of the Miami and Sauk and Fox peoples. The first permanent settler in Chicago, Haitian Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, arrived in the 1770s, married a Potawatomi woman, and founded the area's first trading post. In 1803 the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in the 1812 Fort Dearborn massacre. The Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi later ceded the land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. On August 12, 1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of 350. Within seven years it grew to a population of over 4,000. The City of Chicago was incorporated on March 4, 1837.

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[ldsn22]

O.o is this video about Haiti's story? wtf!!

[omegatank01]

yeas, it deal with what comes after in time from one city founded by a haitian guy, that's part of the story of haitian people their contributions to the world.

[omegatank01]

Obama is better than the other guy plain and simple.

[Jamalama123]

Im haitian and proud. One day our nation will progress and we can return home.

[spongehutch007]

wow. great video.. really open up one eyes about the history book in the U.S. proud to be an haitian!

[MsTomas086]

What about the greats painter John James A he painted nature like birds ect. He is very famouse he is mixed race white and black but majority white.

[MsTomas086]

@lexysimon Lets be real I am Haitian he was not black. His father was a French men and his mother a black women so he was mixed. I am so glad he he is Haitian same with the artist John James A he was also a mixed race person white and black ancestry.

[decus69]

if he was a hatian negro? why has wikapedia got him looking like some europeon fool? guess the cross on his grave says it all.

[fallenempireoverdrve]

what does this have to do with haiti exactly?

[fallenempireoverdrve]

@omegatank01 he was just a better liar....u live in a corporate empire

[pandaqlou]

i am gonna have to check up on my history the real history of the black people i was told not to beleive his-story and read literature and get the real documentation and knowledge.......history is just some b s that could have been altered but knowledge lies in books and tradiotion..thanks for the video

[TruthdontneedDefense]

@arabesquemon Jean-Baptiste Point du Sable

[lexysimon]

Jean-Baptiste Point du Sable, an African American from Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, the pioneer settler of the U.S. city of

Chicago, 1779. A sculpture dedicated by the city of the same name in honor of du Sable, by profession a fur

trader, on the east side of Michigan Avenue, just north of the Chicago river. Go google it, do your research, cause i just did. I learned something today.

[MrDjyno]

is kanye west haition?