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The Spice Islands Before the Massacre
Before the Dutch East India Company's brutal conquest of the Banda Islands in 1621, the nutmeg trade was a delicate web of exchange between Bandanese growers and a motley crew of Asian and European buyers. This episode follows the journey of nutmeg from the volcanic slopes of Banda to the spice markets of Java, India, and Europe. We meet the Javanese traders who dominated the route for centuries, the Portuguese who tried to muscle in, the English who briefly held the island of Run, and the Dutch who ultimately resorted to genocide to secure a monopoly. Along the way, we explore the…
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