may 20, 1727 - First Coffee Plantation
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Over the course of the 18th century, it was the French who first established coffee plantations in Caribbean and Cayenne. It was a French naval officer, by the name of Gabriel de Clieu, who took a seedling from a garden in Paris. He traveled across the sea and successfully transported that seedling to an island called Martinique, which is in the Caribbean. This seedling marked the beginning of a coffee revolution. It is responsible for the 18 million coffee trees that grew over the next 50 years, and it is also the foundation for all the coffee trees in South and Central America. From here, coffee plantations began popping up all over the world and even became the most profitable export and largest commodity. If it were not for the French and their generosity of sharing this valued crop, the billion-dollar coffee industry that we know today would probably not exist.
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