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jan 6, 1870 - Baker Starts Banana Commodity

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Lorenzo Baker, a Massachusetts native, traveled to Jamaica in 1870 and returned with bananas. Mainlanders loved the new exotic fruit and this pushed him to start selling them for profit in the US after each trip to the Caribbean

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jan 6, 1870
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