Forgotten History: The Black Man Who Founded Chicago

[@Elmayimbe703]

I'm from St Marc Haiti and I approved this message!!

[@calmdown2876]

I went to Du Sable High School. Great history lesson for all those who did not know about this great man.

[@rpd9172]

Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable 🇭🇹💪🏿

[@1bettieanderson]

Well done. I am glad that you have undertaking this task to bring highlights to areas that we are totally unfamiliar with. Thank you.

[@Happen0G]

The first African American were not slaves. Columbus' journal documented them as present and trading before he got there.

[@Noneofyabusiness1]

Facts

[@LoisQuichocho]

I am African American and I never knew of this Black Historic Giant. I am Thankful that his Monumental Contributions to Chicago has been Acknowledged, Recorded, and Immortalized! Forever. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@ebonyhill5972]

Sounds like your parents want to keen on your education

[@darlahays2471]

When did you migrate to the US? Because if you were born here and haven't set foot on African soil, guess what YOU ARE AMERICAN.

[@queenmommie100]

We are not Africans we are indigenous natives of the earth. Most of our people have already been here. They moved us on ships up and down the coast of turtle island not from Africa beloved 💕.

[@malchaamahraahwaban7213]

What decade did you go to school because they taught this in school in the 60s ,70s & 80s

[@Repent-p3k]

This is what Haitians do. Chicago and Louisiana .The ungrateful hate us for good deeds. We will still be standing. 😂😂😂

[@germainstlouis7253]

I’m from Haiti and I’m proud of him

[@bootneyleefarnsworth7307]

He wasn't Haitian.

[@Denmark-vsy]

Yo its

[@Denmark-vsy]

I was born in Amerikkka but I claim and classify myself as AFRICAN. MY ANCESTRY IS AFRICAN. WE NEED TO ALL IDENTIFY AS AFRICAN NOT WHERE THE DEVIL DROPPED US OFF AT........

[@danifranc7011]

he didnt found it , there were already french living here and doing business with native Americans. He is the longest permanent resident. The other residents didn't last longer than 4 or 5 years.

[@Denmark-vsy]

@danifranc7011 You need to find and read the book titled "They Came Before Columbus" by Sertima, Ivan Van Plain and simple, we were here thousands of years before the arrival of any non-melinated ppl

[@TheOne5872-n3n]

Growing up in Chi-town my public school always took us on field trips to the Dusable Museum and it’s still there

[@AaronKnight-fe1vm]

How can anyone not see this man part of this city

[@EdwardArmstrong-y3f]

Outstanding Video .!!! Knowledge is key 1619. Rest well to Ancestors.!!! Need be taught in Every public high school 🏫

[@dianecarol6008]

As a native of Chicago, I am very clad you shared this information. This story gives me more encouragement to run and win for President of the United States for 2024. I Diane Carol Thank You

[@Denmark-vsy]

Diane Carol Mayor of City of Chicago

[@Jockstrap716]

I am now in my 70s and this is the first I’ve ever heard of this great man and only wish I had been taught in school about the many contributions Black women and men have brought to this country 😢

[@MySaviorJesus7]

Ask one of your grandchildren to download the slave schedules from the 1850s and read the race of the slave owners. ALL the slave owners were black! ALL OF THEM!

[@Aztec82]

Why didn’t u do something 50 years ago? This is all ur generation’s fault

[@MySaviorJesus7]

@@Aztec82 Don't be a dick homeboy. They got tricked just like we did. Respect your elder my guy don't talk to him like that. There was no internet back then. Truth is just a few clicks away now but not back then.

[@Aztec82]

@@MySaviorJesus7 excuses and excuses, he ain’t my elder! My elders don’t cry and beg like a woman. He wants respect he needs to be respectable. U know that, white dudes freed all the slaves with less technology. Him and his generation raised thugs that are having thugs themselves. The downfall of ur people was caused by his generation

[@Aztec82]

@@MySaviorJesus7 ur a Native American? So am I. We went through way worse

[@childofGodsKingdom]

Great History indeed. As a Haitian born American, I Thank you!

[@mastermace7770]

The schools 🏫 will never tell you this in their history class.

[@raymondraliffjr.2509]

Yes a great history lesson for those of us who did not know about this and at the same time it's an shameful note in American history that so much of our true history has been hidden and ignored by the so called educational system in this country.

[@joejas4976]

Hello Black Journals and thank you for sharing this info with us and i appreciate this

[@antoinettetyus5596]

I didn’t know that much about him thanks for full history. I hope they find his final resting place.

[@democra7797]

They say you learn something new all the time or almost every time.

[@Calikaye]

Yessss real black history!!!!! Glad KZbin suggested it

[@francoissaleta]

Jean baptiste du sable was a black frenchman of the french old colony saint domingue who became Haïti.

[@fassadine6352]

And your point. I suggest you pull a Good map and find out we're present day france is.

[@Lounascreations]

@@fassadine6352that went over your head. That man is Haitian

[@hanifmartin7505]

​@@Lounascreations😂😂

[@melanin_666]

he was haitian and somewhere down his family his father was french

[@Expert-K.2324]

We are an exceptional people. Even after slavery we built flourishing black towns all around North America from nothing. Because we are indigenous to this land. We are the Original American Indians. Just stating true and real history.

[@bgm2658]

@@Expert-K.2324 🎯🎯🎯

[@bgm2658]

🎯🎯🎯

[@reginawilliams1398]

Visited Chicago 2 years ago enjoyed my myself.. I did get a great history lesson on him .. Glad got the recognition he deserves 💕

[@childofGodsKingdom]

Purchased his property? It was more likely STOLEN from him. Come on!

[@leotajackson5602]

@@childofGodsKingdom we know what really happened!

[@annierogershouston9182]

Born and raised here in Chicago. I never knew the history until now 2/3/24. Thanks for the history.

[@maureencora1]

Heaven is for Heroes, May He R.I.P.

[@arnold3785]

Most so-called heroes are in fact murderers.

[@philthai99]

Salute. Thanks for sharing.

[@sergebaron9086]

Jean Baptist’ Point Du Sable was born in st Marc Haiti .🇭🇹

[@Anfmethodjor]

Put his name in the discription. Say his name! Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@KarenOliverBrown]

This Awesome history,‼️ I will try my best... to keep this spirit alive through my Black 🖤 history teachings ‼️ all PRAISE ❤ 🙏🙏🙏 GOING UP TO THE PIONEER... FOR ALL HIS AWESOME 👍 WORK‼️ 😇. Ms. Karen - BLACK 🖤 Historian‼️

[@sasbridgecloserstudent]

I caught the end of the live. Now I will go back and listen to it from the beginning. Thanks.

[@gailjackson7823]

I had no idea. Thank you for sharing. I feel so much more enlightened.

[@josephphoenix1376]

Excellent Episode 👍

[@user-gb3dn7ci6r]

please keep up the gooddeal for all to hear and hope to understand

[@nkeveo6967]

The history of the misuse of the Bible during slavery is important, & you mentioned one misuse as "the curse of Ham". Ham was never cursed but only his son Canaan was; Ham had 4 sons, 3 of which built mighty civilizations.

[@Aztec82]

Yall misuse the Bible all the time lol, yall don’t follow it at all

[@pharaohdodson231]

Correct.

[@Aztec82]

@@pharaohdodson231 ??

[@Dee-7414]

If that's your belief cool, but you aint putting no curse on me from your book that you believe in, Facts over Feelings.

[@angeliaperkins7990]

Reading is fundamental. This is for the 2 comments above mine😂😂😂

[@donnaweathers5335]

Loved this history lesson

[@gladysmorgan5653]

We are Not taught Our History on school for a Reason.

[@andrehamilton774]

Chicago should make a skyscraper name after him

[@LydellWilliams-lh2he]

I agree, I went to the high school. Thank you for sharing.

[@dugdrilly]

Also consider the cities that were built on top of cities

[@jeruelrussell4069]

Fantastic, I met his great great great son. He told me about his family's history but I didn't understand the depth of his family history. Amazing and wonderful this of my home town The history of a city that is not town as you would find in cities that are just big towns behind the times and not as up to date as Chicago Thank you for your channel

[@TheLightShow2]

Yes this is true... go into the 50,000 patterns😁. We made the roller coaster 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

[@Aztec82]

Not true at all

[@angeliaperkins7990]

@@Aztec82😂😂😂😂😂

[@yolandapenn6211]

Thank you for the knowledge

[@skywarriorbraxton]

Great video Great Black Man!

[@irisahmad6974]

This was an excellent educational video. Thank you 😊

[@quentensims415]

With the exception of mispronouncing this great blackmans name, the video was very educational 👍🏾😉

[@GRINDETHIKSMIXTAPESHOW]

Thanks for he video , good video I had an idea that Chi town was started by an brown skin man but I did not know that he was from Haiti

[@tomasjawneh1910]

That's y we say chicago belongs to black like many other cities in the United States of America

[@icecreambeats101]

7:10 Haiti is in North America.

[@antoinettewooten5561]

South America

[@icecreambeats101]

@@antoinettewooten5561 Haiti is not in South America. Look at the map and research. lol. Wow dude.

[@antoinettewooten5561]

@@icecreambeats101 Haiti is NIT in Borth America!

[@antoinettewooten5561]

Sorry, Haiti is NOT in North America!

[@juanrivera2841]

TRUTH, GOOD RESEARCH THE PREFACE OF AMERICAN HISTORY IS CARIBBEAN HISTORY.. VIRGIN ISLANDS PEACE ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

[@bbossnation5697]

Thanks for educating us! REPARATIONS are long overdue for the descendants of slavery that built this country!

[@Aztec82]

Plus y’all only did farm work, u weren’t Architects or engineers, y’all didn’t help With one great building or anything. The Chinese did more

[@cobicobi6417]

@@Aztec82White House was built by slaves come on now it’s to easy to pick you apart

[@240-s8d]

@@Aztec82 We were slaves to devils who became massively wealthy from this monstrous industry. Cotton was king! You can ignore the reality of this evil but there is a price to be paid and it is not money!

[@Expert-K.2324]

The black americans are the indigenous people of this land. We are the Brown American indians that were here before anyone else. And our people had structures and buildings way before anyone else. We are not African Americans. This is our land and we are the original builders. Im telling you true and real history look it up.

[@ChristConvicted]

​@@Expert-K.2324I've heard of this before. I wouldn't be surprised honestly. Do you have videos you can point to for more research?

[@lindabrooks1863]

I think you were 💯 right and did a find job in telling the story.

[@jeanheard4615]

We were told of this back in school they don’t teach black history like they use to it is up to us to teach our children back in the day we had school and black panther and the old grand mamas or as some call big mama

[@sophialocks5663]

Thank you for bringing the truth to light❤

[@HenryJ164]

Blk skin is not a crime.

[@rogertull8888]

NEITHER IS WHITE SKIN, BUT THAT DOESN'T STOP THE RACISM TOWARDS WHITE PEOPLE

[@mustafasharaf3279]

Wife and I was there past OCTOBER 2023.the city I came from to here in New York City.i have most of my family living there still and I still love it myself had no problem when I was living there.

[@Therealmoseslupai]

Me being East African. I approve of this rich black history. Something I needed to know! ☝🏿

[@hailemaryam1174]

It's a very interesting video. I visited the DuSable meseum when I attended an antiracism conference. They didnt have even half of this information about this Black pioneer. They accorded him the status of establishing the settlement. Yet went on to say he mysteriously left under some sort of racial "stress."

[@rooseveltmartin15]

Wonderful program.

[@angiegray4987]

Hispanola is now Dominican Republic and Haiti.

[@carolynhicks6271]

Why are all these truths just coming out now? Is it because the ALMIGHTY GOD JEHOVAH said that in the end times that HE would uncover all lies??! OUR ALMIGHTY GOD JEHOVAH IS TRUE TO HIS WORD.

[@sonyamoyler9237]

Love it thank you for sharing ❤

[@jec9050]

Saint Domingue is Haiti

[@Lounascreations]

My Haitian ancestor 🇭🇹

[@bootneyleefarnsworth7307]

I think not, everyone with a francophone name isn't Haitian.

[@StrReal]

Our ancestors are all the same. It doesn’t matter what name we got from any of the European nations.

[@bootneyleefarnsworth7307]

@StrReal Our ancestors aren't the same.

[@Toptenexplorer-m5t]

@@bootneyleefarnsworth7307he was Haitian you fool.you’re every where saying he was not Haitian

[@jackiejones2142]

Can you imagine Jean Point Sable Chicago's founder walking down the streets of Chicago and seeing the youth of today with their pants below their buttcheeks? I bet he'd want to un-discover Chicago...

[@aprilh9124]

How they dress is not an issue each generation has their own way of wearing their clothes that doesn't harm any one whether u like how it looks or not. Instead he would be clutching his chest looking at how they are killing each other and car jacking like the in GTA THAT'S what he would be disappointed about. All of the hard work of the different ethnic groups to form what is now Chicago is being undone by groups of thugs with no respect for life ..I know this is not what anyone intended when they put their blood.sweat and tears into this city He would also be dismayed at how he has been almost wiped out of the history of the city with little to no accolades at what he had created

[@cynthiadickerson5403]

When the psyche is strong a black man wouldn't show you his backside, and think it is fashion.

[@cynthiadickerson5403]

When the psyche is strong a black man wouldn't show you his backside, and think it is fashionable. That style of dressing is for the weak mind.

[@cynthiadickerson5403]

​@@aprilh9124• We are responsible as parents for the destruction of our families. When we were not allowed to have anything in America we were not destroying our communities like we are now. Too much to talk about here.

[@burlietowner2851]

If these young black men know that sagging didn't start in Prison, a lie , but in slavery,where a black man sag, so the white slave owners would buck them

[@jacquelineagurs1518]

🙏🏿 Thank you❤❤

[@Supreme36074]

I wonder what became of his children & descendants.

[@bushent4800]

FBA

[@BabyBop-rd9dq]

Majority of us was already here so get it right. Y'all came to a beautiful place full of beautiful people and y'all destroyed it and made us prisoners of war. Africans worked with y'all as they still do AND so do other foreigners.

[@ElandaBrown]

The city of Chicago has a small placque where he built his first home along side the Chicago River. Most Citizens don't even know about him nor the location. We do have a Museum and stretch of expressway named after him.

[@dendennis9060]

Thank U, Infinite Intelligence 🙏

[@Trizzy-pj5wj]

I doubt he was Haitian as Haiti wasn't even established at the time and How would he know American soil. I believe he was Creole Black Indian, as his wife was Indian (probably black Indian also).

[@ruthmidgyette7821]

I am very impressed

[@sibonilekhumalo9754]

Thanks for sharing the truth and brutality of those brats

[@REALTELEVISIONTV]

Did you know black man names pio pico founded the city of los angeles

[@monaramsey5714]

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@janettebyrd1172]

It good to know that history of man❤

[@ISOinMotion]

So they erected his statue at the Kinsey homestead, that Kinsey bought from him, and they even named in Kinsey’s street? Wait…..

[@douglasudell3616]

Same old gravey just warmed over

[@justaznyce]

It’s so sad that this city/state is mostly known for violence and the unaliving of the younger generations whom reside on certain streets, blocks or housing complexes. It’s a shame and so unnecessary to have all this chaos over something that never belonged to them in the 1st place. Can’t take NONE of this with you when you leave this earth. It be some of the most talented people who can’t even enjoy the fruits of their labor because they’re so busy looking over their shoulders, fighting & bragging about stupid sh🤫t. Like it isn’t already hard enough for us to live a long productive life and/or remain healthy SMDH🤦🏽‍♀️Morals & values are all 🤬up🤷🏽‍♀️

[@VincentBeville]

Stop using AI as far as your commentary and narration of this video. You mispronounced his name and then pronounced it correctly all throughout this video.

[@IvanCastillo-gb9vp]

We tend to forget that Mankind is not brimming with perfection and that he has flaws of all sorts in all aspects of life. If you can do better then do it without complaining or criticisms. AI is filled with flaws just as Mankind as we all deal with the Good, Bad and the Ugly of Mankind's endeavors.

[@OPPK100]

Shut up you make a video then

[@REALTELEVISIONTV]

Can't please black folk 🤫🙄

[@JoAnn-y6l]

Dusable's name was misspelled thruout the video. But, the narrator need not be BLAMED for that..✍️💕👁️

[@ErickHearn-hz3pt]

There's no such thing as a.i.more like Azazel,fallen angel,technology.

[@Raja-bz4yw]

I wish he didn't sell anything and continued to live there. I wonder if any of his family still is in the us

[@icecreambeats101]

Chicago also means wild onion in one of the native America languages

[@joiisler8986]

Wow. If we could only stop the unnecessarily frequent shedding of innocent blood staining the streets carved out by this great man.🥺 Props, sir.🫡

[@Aztec82]

U can say that about all black cities!!! Where blacks are killing eachother all the time

[@anonymousf454]

Innocent?

[@joiisler8986]

@@anonymousf454 “Innocent” Blood (especially that of Children and other bystanders) being spilled on a DAILY is All Over The News. Not just that of the “Guilty.” Now I know into which “category” You Fit.

[@ElvinAxson-xi3oz]

thank you 😢

[@Q_Ona6]

Fun fact: there was no such thing as an "African American" until the 1980s, so NO! "The first African Americans" did NOT arrive in 1619

[@gethropierre4163]

He was from Saint Marc Haiti not Saint-Domingue that’s Dominican Republic

[@santo8389]

Saint Domingue was the name of modern day Haiti when the French colonized it.

[@bootneyleefarnsworth7307]

His birthdate and place are uncertain.

[@hanifmartin7505]

​@@bootneyleefarnsworth7307go away troll

[@Toptenexplorer-m5t]

@@bootneyleefarnsworth7307yo get a life,he was born in st Marc Haiti.You’re a fool

[@johneurek8181]

It was actually two, but one got shot.

[@Bhgh-kq6qc]

Something tells me he’s from New Orleans by way of Haiti

[@lightofchicagoproductionz9012]

Im sorry He did not discover Chicago ... there was a tribal community already here... he reestablished a lost colony of the French who set up the Mision of the guardian angel in 1600s , Was no town yet but a Fur trading post

[@antoinettewooten5561]

There were Indigenous people here long before people from any other nations arrived

[@Bhgh-kq6qc]

Isn’t he of Haitian descent and origin ?

[@bootneyleefarnsworth7307]

No.

[@hanifmartin7505]

​@@bootneyleefarnsworth7307yes

[@bootneyleefarnsworth7307]

@@marekcracovia4061 Where's the evidence of that?

[@bootneyleefarnsworth7307]

@@marekcracovia4061 That isn't evidence that he's of Haitian descent or origin.

[@bootneyleefarnsworth7307]

@@marekcracovia4061 There's no evidence of that, did you watch the video at all?

[@Denmark-vsy]

......but today they treat the people with same superior genetics like Jean Baptiste DuSable extremely unjust,cruel and gross disrespect.

[@lindareyes3818]

THE TRUTH AND THE LIES WILL BE MADE KNOWN, THE TRUTH WILL STAND ON IT'S OWN, WHETHER WE ACCEPT IT OR NOT

[@maryzambrana7141]

Fascinating story and study. Needed to have the narrative be consistent with the pronunciation of de Sable to reflect it's French origin. 😊

[@angelasconversations5551]

I thought that his name was Jean Baptiste

[@Patricia-h4o]

ARE THERE ANY OFF SPRING OF DUSABLE

[@djohns9295]

The overtly romantic description of modern Chicago tells me the AI who wrote this has never been there.

[@NoFace-ke9pc]

Nakes sense seeing how it is today

[@oluhamilton2121]

whooo......low blow, karma coming

[@NoFace-ke9pc]

@oluhamilton2121 karma needs to come for Chicago. That place is worse than Gotham. You don't get bad karma for speaking truth.

[@angeliaperkins7990]

@@oluhamilton2121most people just talk or type. Although I don’t think the things that are going on there are good, since I’m not the one that can do anything to change it I’m not going to talk about it or talk down on it either, but most people don’t look at it like me.

[@keelerhastings7109]

I grew up in Chicago and have known about Jean Point DuSable all my life, Black people built Chicago, unfortunately, Black people have destroyed Chicago

[@melaninsupergurl-vu4uv]

He set up a trading post for a time.. He wasn't the first or the last... He was one settler in a chain of settlers.. He wasn't the Brigham Young of Salt Lake City Utah.

[@jamessill9237]

!! REPARATION, REPARATION, REPARATION!!!!

[@Aztec82]

Hahaha never, stop being lazy and greedy. Do u really think y’all will ever get them? Also how is it fair? For people who never owned slaves to pay?

[@jamessill9237]

@DaBrickashaw not as MUCH as YOU

[@Aztec82]

@@jamessill9237 makes zero sense

[@Aztec82]

@@jamessill9237 u never were a slave and never worked, no one alive owned slaves and many weren’t even here yet

[@Aztec82]

@@jamessill9237 I know yall will never get them, no one is gonna pay 12% of the population cuz they feel bad

[@MohamedKamara-l2t]

We are very much disappointed, while we are still discriminated over color, are we not humans ?

[@mommadrew9392]

Also, thanks Vince for recognizing AI.

[@ansylem]

Thanks please use the suggestions made by several persons and help us further, if you truly want to