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Aceh - American pepper trading
The earliest American millionaires,operating out of Salem, Massachusetts, amassed their fortunes by going across the Pacific in the late eighteenth century to buy Acehnese pepper, bypassing Dutch blockades between Aceh and Malabar (Phillips 1949)
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