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Jacob Young becomes 1st black person to own land in Detroit
June 24, 2022 @ 12:00 am
Jacob Young buys a parcel of land from a French settler named Joseph Bourdeaux, and becomes the first black person to own land in Detroit on this day way back in 1793.