1726-00-00: (Coffee Cultivation Introduced to Haiti, Adding a Second Major Export Crop to the Colony’s Economy That Would Become Especially Important in the …

1726-00-00: (Coffee Cultivation Introduced to Haiti, Adding a Second Major Export Crop to the Colony’s Economy That Would Become Especially Important in the Mountainous Interior Where Sugarcane Could Not Grow): In 1726, coffee cultivation was introduced to Haiti, giving the colony a second major export crop alongside sugarcane. Coffee thrived in the mountainous interior where the terrain was unsuitable for sugar plantations, which meant it opened new regions of the colony to plantation agriculture and, by extension, to enslaved labor. Coffee would remain a significant part of Haiti’s economy long after independence, though it would never recover the scale of the colonial period.