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BANDA ISLANDS, Indonesia – Some 350 years ago, two colonial masters came together to haggle over real estate and put an end to repeated sieges on each other’s settlements.
One group decided nutmeg and spices were important. The other opted for a swampy strip of land in North America, confident of a blooming transatlantic trade.
