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The Spice Islands: Nutmeg, Genocide, and the Dutch East India Company
This episode tells the story of the Banda Islands—the world's only source of nutmeg and mace for centuries. Lucas and Luna explore how these tiny volcanic specks in eastern Indonesia became the most valuable real estate on earth, driving European exploration and colonial violence. We meet the Bandanese people who controlled the trade, the Portuguese who first arrived in 1512, and the Dutch East India Company (VOC) that orchestrated a brutal conquest. The episode focuses on the 1621 massacre and enslavement ordered by VOC governor Jan Pieterszoon Coen, which destroyed the indigenous…
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