![]() ![]() Among the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles, et al., Africans were enslaved by Native Americans. Because their marriages were usually not considered legitimate by law, their children were slaves like their parents and considered illegitimate. In shared slavery, enslaved Africans and enslaved Native Americans intermarried with one another. The origins of shared kinship between Africans and Native Americans-both legitimate and illegitimate-lie in their alliances and allegiances formed during slavery and as fellow citizens in self-determination within tribal nations within the present-day boundaries of the United States. Their dreams, facilitation of intertribal and international trade in the area, resourcefulness, and determination would ultimately lead to the City of Chicago. ![]() Together, this husband-and-wife team created a bakehouse, dairy farm, smokehouse, poultry house, and mill. His savvy led to friendly relations with the Potawatomi people and consequential marriage to Kitihawa (Catherine). He applied his education, acquired reasoning skills, and charm to the fur trading business. ![]() In the late 1700s, Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable made his way from the American South to the Great Lakes region. ![]()
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