The Dark History of Coffee

For over a hundred years, Yemen is this coffee growing powerhouse and it's being shipped across the world. The Ottomans who dominate the peninsula at the time are making a lot of money out of this. They made sure that the coffees were so dried out that you couldn't grow coffee from the beans. So how was that stranglehold broken? Who broke it? Ultimately by the Dutch and that's shortly soon after it’s followed by the French, etc, etc. A lot of colonization, coffee becomes a colonial product, basically colonial good. It touches in the use of forced labor in the production of this drink and the deaths of many people. That is what we

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