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1760-00-00: (France Begins Extensive Coffee Cultivation in Haiti, Expanding the Plantation Economy Into the Mountainous Interior and Deepening the Colony’s D…

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1760-00-00: (France Begins Extensive Coffee Cultivation in Haiti, Expanding the Plantation Economy Into the Mountainous Interior and Deepening the Colony’s Dependence on Enslaved Labor): In 1760, France expanded coffee cultivation across Haiti’s mountainous interior, adding a second major crop to an export economy already built on sugarcane. Coffee grew where sugar could not, in the higher elevations unsuitable for cane, which meant the plantation system now reached into previously marginal territory. Every new coffee plantation required more enslaved workers, deepening the colony’s total dependence on the transatlantic slave trade.