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Before 1800: free in the highlands
For longer than anyone has written history on this coast, the people of the highlands governed themselves. We cleared our own fields, forged our own iron, judged our own quarrels by a law recited from memory, traded down the rivers for salt and gongs, and made war and peace with one another without asking leave of any king. Three kingdoms on our...
The first outsiders: Cham, Annam and the missions
Three powers came to the edge of the highlands before the French, and each left something with us. The Cham held the coast for a thousand years, traded up our rivers, built one tower in our forest, and when their kingdom died gave their crowns into our keeping. The Vietnamese destroyed the Cham, inherited the shore, set up markets at the foot of...
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