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The Banda Massacre: How the Dutch Secured the Spice Trade
In 1621, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) under Governor-General Jan Pieterszoon Coen launched a brutal campaign on the Banda Islands to monopolize the nutmeg trade. Nearly the entire population was killed or enslaved, and the islands were repopulated with slaves. This episode explores the spice race that drove Europe's colonial ambitions, the ruthless tactics of the VOC, and the shocking trade that saw the Dutch exchange the tiny island of Run for what became New York. We trace the origins of the spice monopoly from Portuguese and Spanish rivalry under the Treaties of Tordesillas and…
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