The Other Coffee history (The dark side)
Coffee has a dark and terrible history that in a lot of ways is still playing out today.
European colonial governments in the Americas when it's a feed Europe's coffee demand so they forced indigenous peoples in the slavery and broad enslaved Africans to work the sugar and coffee plantations
By 1788 saint-domingue later known as Haiti supplied half of the world's coffee
But in 1791 Haiti have the first-ever successful slave revolt where they fought for their lives to control of the colony kill plantation owners and burn all of the coffee and sugar crops to the ground gaining their freedom.
After Haiti Brazil rose to be the largest coffee producer on the planet
Brazil was also the last western country to abolish slavery in 1888 out of about four million slaves in all of Latin America forty percent were in Brazil.
They worked under unimaginably horrible conditions and many died after only eight years working on the plantation now chattel slavery has been abolished in the Western world, but many coffee producers still work for low wages and have inadequate nutrition and health Care.
The cost of our daily cappuccino is way more than what most workers make after an entire day, but thanks to a new wave of coffee many other troops have come out and people are starting to demand quality and information to know where their coffee comes from and under what human and environmental costs.
We @knight-angel are avid coffee drinkers and grind our own coffee beans per cup with" Knight" half of @knight-angel being #Italian
I recommend fair-trade, biological. quality coffee. There are so many varieties on the market. My favorite is Aluna form Columbia. It is a handpicked quality coffee from the Kogis in North Columbia. The money goes directly to the people who use it to buy bakc their land and heritage, which was stolen from them by the government and drug moguls in the past.
They should not have burnt the plantation. The production could have made money from the plantations, but as with all revulotions, they sometimes destroyed more than what they won.