Dusable Pin poetry Through the medium of silverpoint

Through the medium of silverpoint

the Radical Bookshop

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Dusable Pin poetry Through the medium of silverpointJean Baptiste Point du Sable is regarded as the first permanent resident of what became Chicago, Illinois. Little is known of his life prior to the 1770s. In the early 1780s he worked for the British lieutenant governor of Michilimackinac on an estate at what is now the city of St. Clair, Michigan, before moving to settle at the mouth of the Chicago River. He is first recorded living in Chicago in early 1790, having apparently become established