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Did the British trade coffee with the Cherokee?



I was at Fort Loudon in East Tennessee during a "Garrison Weekend." And grabbed this image of a lovely young trader-re-enactor and her horse. I did not realize at the time, but on the back of the horse is a Colombian coffee bag.
So I looked into when coffee may have been introduced to the Cherokee.
Here is a partial time line from wikipedia:

  • 1668 Coffee began to be known in North America.
  • 1670 London devoted to coffee. Coffee shop opened in every corner of London.
  • In Brazil, coffee cultivation began. Types of coffee grown is the Coffea Arabica Lind.
  • 1675 King Charles II closes all coffee shops in London.
  • 1688 More than 800 local coffee shop opened in Soho (England). Especially by Christian refugees from the French Calvinists (Huguenots).
  • 1696 The first coffee shop called The King's Arms opened in New York.
  • 1727 Francisco de Ello brings coffee beans from France for planting in Brazil.
  • 1730 British planted coffee in Jamaica.
  • My conclusion is it certainly is plausible that coffee may have been traded at the time of the French Indian wars around the 1750's until 1760 when Fort Loudon surrendered to the Cherokee.

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