Pretty much everyone back then was a real SOB, you had to be if living on the frontier and colonizing Indian land was appealing to you. Whether a slaveowner or not, duSable was clearly a self-interested guy and not a noble person or role model in any sense.
In the end the city's decision to honor duSable says more about us in 2021 than the actual facts of his life 200 years ago. The symbolism of including Black and native people in the city's creation myth, which I don't have a problem with. It's just so fucking clunky in execution - LSD was an iconic name without any historical baggage and the new name is ridiculous.
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la forme d'une ville change plus vite, hélas! que le coeur d'un mortel...
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