It's number 30 now, but what Caribbean country supplied half the world's coffee when it was known as Saint-Domingue in 1790?

While coffee exportation used to provide the economic backbone on Haiti, it's now fallen behind mango and cocoa in terms of export value. One of the reasons for the decline is the Haitian Revolution that broke out in 1791. Just 10 years later, a large number of the plantations had been burned down.

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