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Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable

By Deborah Creighton Skinner | Published June 23, 2010 | Full size is 510 × 357 pixels

Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable was a colonist of mixed French and Haitian ancestry. Du Sable was the first nonindigenous settler in what is now Chicago, Illinois. (Date issued: Feb. 20, 1987)

Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable was a colonist of mixed French and Haitian ancestry. Du…