Black Coffee (2007 film)

Black Coffee is a 2007 Canadian documentary film examining the complicated history of coffee and detailing its political, social, and economic influence from the past to the present day.

Brazil has been adversely effected by deregulation in the 1990s, which has seen boom and bust cycles in the coffee market. This, in combination with industrial scale production, has made the price of green coffee beans historically low and places additional financial pressure on farmers. In an attempt to combat this, experts sought to create a higher quality Brazilian blend that could fetch higher prices.In 1773, coffee was marginal in North America, but after the Boston Tea Party, ones political affiliation and patriotism could increasingly be determined by whether they drank coffee or tea. Coffees mass production in the Americas started when the wife of the governor for French Guinea gave her departing Brazilian lover, Francisco Polletta, flowers with hidden fertile coffee beans, as exporting them was illegal. The smuggled beans enabled Brazil to become the world powerhouse in coffee production, driving the countrys modernization, decimation of its rain forest, and bolstering the slave trade. The crop created vast wealth for the coffee barons and made Brazil the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery. ........

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