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#957: Haiti Coffee Dominance: DeGraff gives sources
From: Michel DeGraff <degraff@MIT.EDU>
Re:
> I have been saying that Haiti was at one time the largest producer of
> coffee in the world. I even pulled a similar line from articles written
> in l997, in various newspapers. Unfortunately, I have not been able to
> track down stronger references to substantiate this claim. Do you have
> any suggestions?
One handy reference is M.-R. Trouillot's (1993) _Haiti: State against
Nation_ (New York: Monthly Review Press). On page 37, Trouillot writes:
"By 1789, Saint-Domingue was producing about 60% of the coffee sold in the
Western world and by the end of the century , it held world production
records for both sugar and coffee, becoming --- at least from the point of
view of the French mercantilists --- the most profitable colony in the
world"
Trouillot also cites an earlier article of his: "Motion in the system:
Coffee, color, and slavery in Eighteen-Century Saint-Domingue". In
_Review_ 5, no 3, pp 331-388.
Hope this helps,
-michel.
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