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The Confederate Army drank copious amounts of coffee, with soldiers' rations including up to 10 cups a day's worth. Did that coffee come from Brazil, and, if so, did Brazilian coffee plantation owners offer any kind of discount or donation to a fellow slave society fighting an existential war?

by /u/Acidnapper in /r/AskHistorians

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