Cafe di Preto: A Black-owned coffee brand in Brazil
Brazil is, by far, the world's largest producer in the lucrative coffee market. But there is a dark history behind the country's dominance: slavery.
It was enslaved Africans who cleared the land, planted the coffee, and built the infrastructure on plantations that still operate today. It is a history few Brazilians recognize in an industry that, even after emancipation, excluded Afro Brazilian participation.&nbs