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The 1710 Haitian Coffee Boom: A Brief Atlantic History
In 1710, a single French ship captain brought a coffee plant from Java to the French colony of Saint-Domingue. That one cutting, planted in the mountains above Cap-Français, would transform a sugar colony into the world's coffee capital and set the stage for the Haitian Revolution. This episode follows that seedling from the Dutch East Indies to the Caribbean, through the hands of a ship captain named Gabriel de Clieu — though the timing is contested — and into the soil of a mountain estate owned by a man named Nicolas Ovando. We trace how coffee spread across the Atlantic, why…
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