THE RAIDERS OF THE SULU SEA
- Highlights the event during the time of Prehispanic and Hispanic colonial period
• Mayroong existing raiders na sa PH, bandng
southern Mindanao
• Meron na tayong foreign/internaitonal
trading with European countries and asia
(e.g. China) during prehispanic and Hispanic
times.
• Engage na ang PH sa malawakang trading
bago pa tayo ma-colonize ng Spanish.
• Intention of the Spanish colonizers why they
colonized the PH:
• Not just about the conversion of religion (to
Christianity), but also may interest din talaga
sila sa resources ng PH
• Gusto ng mga Spanish na ma-involve sa
process of exchange of trading na nagagawa
ng PH with other countries
• Naging instrumental tool or way nila si
religion para mas mapalawig ang influence
nila at mas mapadali ang pag-colonize sa atin.
• In short, di lang religion ang pakay nila kundi
ang economic interest in trading ng PH
Raiders of the Sulu Sea
• A Historiography documentary film focusing
on Zamboanga City depicting how the
Spaniards defended the city with the Fort
Pilar as Spain’s last stronghold and bastion of
defense and economic expansion in the
South of the Philippines.
• In Zamboanga Del Norte, makikita yung Fort
Pilar.
Fort Pilar
• Centro ng kalakalan
• Ipinatayo ng Spanish Government noong
June 23, 1635
• Ginamit ng Spanish to secure yung control
nila over the process ng economic trading ng
PH
• Ginwardyahan ng mga Spanish para talaga
ma-secure at para mapanghawakan ang
control sa Zamboanga City
Raiders of Sulu Sea
• From muslim group kaya dominant sila sa
pinaggagagawa ng Spanish (dito yung point
bakit nanlalaban na sila)
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They want to be dominant and independent
away and separated from Spanish colonizers
• Sila yung unang against sa pag-colonize ng
Spanish sa PH
• Muslim: mga unang tao sa PH na ayaw iaccept and embrace yung colonization ng
Spanish. (lalo na sa usaping religion)
• Ayaw nila ang konsepto ng Christianity.
• Especially, sa parting southern part of the
PH (Mindanao, Zamboanga City – Sulu)
• Adverse effects/retaliation when Spaniards
wanted to control the economy as well to
colonize and Christanize.
• It depicts the Southeast Asian flourishing free
trading in the area and the adverse effects
and repercussions when Europeans such as
the English, Dutch and Spanish who wanted
to control the economy as well to colonize
and Christianize.
• Di lang ang Spanish ang nagkaka-interest at
gusto tayong ma-control patungkol sa
resources and economic trading ng PH. Pati
na din ang mga Ingles and Dutch people,
European countries
• Kaya talaga din pinoprotektahan tayo ng
Spanish mula sa ibang gustong mag-colonize
sa PH (maprotektahan tayo from external
control)
• During this time, si Gov. Gen. Narciso
Claveria y Zaldua ang govgen ng Spain in PH
• The documentary centers on the activities of
the slave raiders as a way of retaliation to the
colonizers and a way to defend their way of
life against oppression.
• Nagkakaroon ng debate whether tama bang
i-categorize yung mga raiders as pirates, dahil
sa act/movement na ginagawa nila showing
opposition sa Spanish
Luzon and Visayas – mga region na mas madaling
masakop compare sa Mindanao ng Spanish
• Nahirapan ang mga Spanish na sakupin ang
Mindanao area, particularly ang Zamboanga
dahil puro muslim people ang naninirahan
dito
• Sila yung mga taong di takot na dumanak ang
dugo o makipagpatayan sa Spanish during
colonizing emerut kasi nga ayaw nila sa
religion chubanes ng spain talaga
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The Sulu and Maguindanao sultanates were
then the two main kingdoms controlling the
Muslim colonies of the southern Philippines.
With the king of Maguindanao, Rajah Dalasi,
at the helm, they launched a bloody attack on
Fort Pilar.
➢ Rajah Dalasi – king of Maguindanao
• Sya yung naglead sa defense ng raiders
from invasion of Spain in Mindanao
➢ Two main kingdoms – Sulu and
Maguindanao sultanates
Three Muslim Tribes
1. Tausug (warriors) – A tribe without maritime
experience, but known for its fierce warriors and
widespread political power
2. Illanun (Raiding Tribe) – The one which was very
important in piracy history. Long-standing
seafaring community
3. Balangingi Tribe or Samal (Raiding Tribe) –
Occupied the chain of islands between Basilan
and Sulu Island. Also a long-standing seafaring
community
➢ Before legal ang pangunguha ng raiders as a
slaves, kumbaga pangunguha ng natives para
gawing slaves ay legal dati
➢ Slaves – pinagbebenta din nila, nakakacontribute din kasi ito sa economy
➢ At the time of 16th century, before the coming of
Spanish ay legal na ang raid of slaves.
➢ Illanun at Samal Balangingi – long-standing
seafaring community
WEAPONS
• Kalis and Scabbard
• Kampilan and scabbard
• Ruler length = 12 inches
• Moro Kris and Moro barung/barong
• look a like of bolo
• one-sided edge weapon
• Moro kris
• Emphasize as a one of the good weapons
• Dahil pa-curve sya, kaya pagpasok niya sa
katawan mas deadly yung effect nya
Maritime Vessels
Ancient maritime vessels:
• Lanong
• Garay
• Salisipan
➢ 30 people kada side ng vessel ang pwede
makasakay
o 30 + 30 = 60 katao
➢ Ang nagsasagwan nung vessel is yung mga slaves
nakanilang nakaka-capture
➢ Kapag may raiding activity, pag-aalis sila konti
lang silang raiders na bumabyahe dahil iooccupy din ng mga slaves na maccapture nila
yung vessel at sila ang magsasagwan
➢ Sa panghuhuli ng slaves, nagpapanggap ang mga
raider as fisherman para madaling makuha yung
loob at di katakutan ng mga natives
➢ Pagnakuha na loob, saka nila huhulihin. Cruel
ang kaganapan once may ma-capture na.
➢ Binubutas nila yung gitna ng palm nung mga
naca-capture nila (both hand) para di makatakas
➢ mula sa mga butas may papasok silang tali kaya
di ka makakatakas talaga, inulet HASHHAHSQHA
1977
• Butuan
• Archeological excavation in Southern
Philippines
• Dito sa area na ‘to ang nagpapatunay na may
existing maritime vessels during the time of
Spanish colonization.
• May na-retrieve na piece of the boat tas na
carbon testing nalaman na yung mg anaretrieve is during Hispanic times pa
• Ito yung magsusupport na meron talagang
mga early vessels na ginagamit na ang mga
raiders
December 8, 1720
• Nagkaroon ng battle in Fort Pilar, Zamboanga
• Pinangunahan ni Rajah Dalasi (raiders’ side)
• Nagkaroon ng labanan sa pagitan ng raiders
(native) and Spanish
• Dahil gusto ng mga native mapaalis ang mga
Spanish and mawala na yung control nila sa
economic trading ng bansa.
• Hindi nanalo ang raiders (natives)
• Nasa mahigit 3,000 raiders ang sumugod
• 600 katao naman ang nasa side ng Spanish
• Kahit madami ang raiders natalo pa din sila
dahil ang weapon lang na nagamit nila is yung
namention kanina na mga bolo eneme. Tas
yung sa mga Spaniards mga baril, kaya di
talaga mananalo
• Kaya kahit sobrang dami ng raiders, olats pa
din sila
➢ 3,000 – raiders
➢ 600 – Spanish
Additional:
▪ In-attempt ng mga raiders na kunin ang mga
Spanish vessels, tinry nila gamitin kaya lang
mga modern vessels kasi ang mga ‘eon dahil
imported from England ito.
▪ compare mo naman sa mga vessels talaga
ng raiders na sagwan style lang kaya
nahirapan din sila, hindi nila alam kung pano
i-navigate.
▪ In the end, isa din ito sa mga dahilan ng
ikinatalo nila.
Cory Aquino Speech Before U.S. Congress in 1986
- September 18, 1986
Speech of President Corazon Aquino during the
Joint Session of the US Congress
- Corazon: kauna-unahang president na babae ng
PH gov’t
▪ Pinalitan niya si Ferdinand Marcos Sr.
1986
• Same year, nagkaroon ng People’s power
revolution
• Feb 25, 1986: People’s power revolution (Feb.
22-25)
Cory Aquino Background
• Maria Corazon “Cory” Sumulong Cojuangco
Aquino was a Filipino politician who served as
the 11th President of the Philippines, becoming
the first woman to hold that office. Corazon
Aquino was the most prominent figure of the
1986 People power revolution, which ended the
21-year rule of President Ferdinand Marcos.
➢ Born: January 25, 1933 (Paniqui)
➢ Died: August 1, 2009 (Makati Medical Center,
Makati)
➢ Full Name: Maria Corazon Sumulong Cojuangco
➢ Presidential term: February 25, 1986 – June 30,
1992 (6 years)
Mr. Teodoro Locsin Jr.
- Is a Filipino Politician, diplomat, lawyer, and
former journalist who served as congressman
for the 1st District of Makati from 2001 to 2010
and later served as Philippine Ambassador to the
United Nations from 2017 to 2018.
- He was the secretary and speechwriter of Cory
Aquino speech
➢ Born: Nov. 15, 1948 (age 70 years), Manila
➢ Education: Ateneo de Manila University
➢ Parents: Teddy Boy Locsin
➢ Party: PDP – Laban
•
When former President Corazon Aquino spoke
before a joint session of the United States
Congress in September of 1986, the dust was
only beginning to settle. It was her first visit to
America since the dictator Ferdinand Marcos
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had been deposed in February of the same year,
and the Philippines was reckoning with
everything his administration had inflicted. That
included $26 billion in total foreign debt, and a
communist insurgency that grew, throughout
the Marcos era, from 500 armed guerillas to
16,000. We were just at the start of a long road
to recovery.
Di na bago kay Corazon magpunta ng US.
Nagpunta din kasi sya before sa Massachusetts
noon 1980, ito yung time na na-exile si Ninoy
Aquino.
Naimbitahan si Cory. Dahil dito nagkaroon ng
pagkakataon ang pinas para linawin ang
pagkakautang ng pinas sa US (utang na iniwan ni
golden era boy)
$26 billion – iniwan ni Marcos na utang (tignan mo
nag-iwan pa, bwict)
▪ Ginamit nya ‘to to settle communist
insurgency of our country na kung saan ito
din ang dahilan kung bakit nagkaroon ng
martial law sa bansa
▪ Reason of martial law: grew of communist
insurgency
Communist insurgency
- May kinalaman sa paglaganap ng
communist groups sa bansa na gusto nalang
i-overthrow ang government during marcos
time
- Kaya during speech of Cory, nabanggit ito
• So, Aquino lodged an appeal for help.
Addressing the house, she delivered a historic
speech that managed to sway in our favor the
vote for an emergency $200 million aid
appropriation. In the moving speech penned by
her speechwriter (and our current ambassador
to the United Nations) Teddy Locsin, Jr. Aquino
communist insurgency – a sensitive issue in the
U.S., given that this was 1986 – and asked for
financial aid towards rebuilding the Philippines
economy.
- Kahit independent na tayo, still allied pa din
natin si US
- Gusto manangyari ni Aquino na mangutang ng
halagang $200 million, isa ito sa purpose nung
speech nya. Yung $200 million is para sa
rebuilding/restoration of our country dahil said
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na said ang kaban ng bayan nung inawan ni
Marcos
Kinabiliban si Cory sa pagkakabangggit niya
about the $26 billion. Kumbaga, sinasabi niya na
babayaran natin ‘to. Na di natin tatakbuhan
yung utang despite na kahit si Cory di alam kung
san ba talaga napunta yung bung $26 billion.
People applauded to her.
Kumbaga she admit and takes responsibility to
pay the previous debt. Need niya din sabihin
‘yon dahil mangungutang sya ulit.
“We fought for honor, and, if only for honor, we
shall pay,” she said, agreeing to pay the debt
that was stolen by Marcos. “And yet, should we
have to wring the payments from the sweat of
our men’s faces and sink all the wealth piled up
by the bondsman’s two hundred fifty years of
unrequited toil?
In this statement, pinapakita na talagang willing
si Cory, i-shoulder yung previous debt na iniwan
ni golden era boy kahit di natin alam kung san
nagamit.
Actually pwede nating di bayaran dahil nga di
natin alam kung san talaga ito napunta,
however, wala tayong solid proof about that
kaya struggle ito for Cory
The speech was impassioned, deeply personal,
and effective; interrupted 11 times by applause
and bookended with standing ovations. House
Speaker Tip O’Neill called it the “finest speech
I’ve ever heard in my 34 years in Congress.”
Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole told her,
“Cory. You hit a home run.” And house minority
Whip Trent Lott said, “Let’s just say the emotion
of the moment saved the day.” It would go down
in the annals of our history as one of the former
President’s finest speeches.
“For myself and our children, Ninoy was a loving
husband and father. His loss, three times in our
lives was always a deep and painful one.
Fourteen years ago this month, was the first
time we lost him. A president-turned-dictator
and traitor to his oath, suspended the
constitution and shutdown the Congress that
was much like this one before which I’m
honored to speak. He detained my husband
along with thousands of others – Senators,
publishers, and anyone who had spoken up for
the democracy as its end drew near. But for
Ninoy, a long and cruel ordeal was reserved. The
dictator already knew that Ninoy was not a body
merely to be imprisoned but a spirit he must
break. For even as the dictatorship demolished
one-by-one; the institutions of democracy, the
press, the congress, the independence of a
judiciary, the protection of the Bill of Rights,
Ninoy kept their spirit alive in himself.”
• She became the center of anti-Marcos politics in
the Philippines – a movement known as “People
Power”.
- Corazon aquino – considered to be the ‘face of
democracy’ pero di daw sabi ni mam haha
kumbaga nag-lead lang sya during sa situation
nung kay marcos. Kumbaga, she only bring back
the democracy existed way back in the beri
beginning.
- kumbaga, ang mas macoconsider na face of
democracy sila Quezon and osmena eneme,
dahil sa kanila natin nakuha yung independence
eneme.
Relevance
• Many in the audience of Cabinet members,
diplomats, senator and congressmen honored
Aquino’s signature color by displaying the color
themselves. The chamber was sprinkled with
yellow shirts, blouses, ties, handkerchiefs and
some of the 200 yellow roses flown in from
Texas by House Majority Leader James C. Wright
Jr. (D-Tex).
• Senate Majority Leader Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.),
escorting Aquino up the House aisle to the
tumultuous applause, told her, “you hit a home
run.” Without a pause between handshakes,
according to a Dole aide, Aquino replied, “I hope
the bases were loaded.”
• Her stunningly successful US visit will not
diminish the problems Aquino must face when
she returns this week to Manila. Ut it certainly
added a luster of political sophistication to her
image as an honest, principled leader. And that
should but her much needed time – and the
increased loyalty of the Philippine people – in
the difficult months ahead.
September 21, 1972 – declaration and beginning of
Martial law
1981 – year martial law ended (total of 9 years)
Reason behind lifting of martial law – the visit of
John Paul the 2nd in PH
Talaga bang nagka-golden era nung martial law?
- No