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- Title:
- FREEDOM TO FIND FOOD
- Date Created:
- 2021-08-06
- Description:
- During the second colonial century, just after the Conquista had ended, the Agrarian Revolt began. It started in Lian and Nasugbu, Batangas in 1745. Other pueblos of Batangas, Laguna, Cavite, Bulacan had joined by the time it ended in 1746. Pedro Enriquez an auditor of the Audencia reported to the King on the insurrection. It was due to religious of the Dominican and Augustinian orders “usurping lands of the Indians without leaving them the freedom of the rivers for their fishing, or allowing them to cut wood for their necessary use, or even to collect wild fruits, nor did they allow the natives to pasture on the hills near their villages the carabaos which they used for agriculture”. The auditor decided the natives should therefore not pay “various unjust taxes which the managers extracted from them”. Then the auditor was commissioned as a subdelegate judge of the adjustment of land titles. The orders having refused to present titles, he declared that the friars had taken crown lands. Therefore he redistributed them to the appropriate pueblos. Some of the usurped lands were used as cattle farms illegally. From the Escorial on November 17, 1752, King Ferdinand VI commanded “utmost vigilance in order that the Indians of the said villages may not be molested by the religious, and that the latter shall be kept in check in the unjust acts...” Pueblos developed on the King’s lands found themselves competing with friar estates for gains from agriculture and husbandry. Mail to and from the King went via galleon, needing at least a year if not longer for each one-way voyage. Heaven forbid a ship sank or was intercepted by pirates. Sadly the friars appealed the King’s decision and in the end, natives received no compensation for their misery and the injustice suffered.
- Subjects:
- Agrarian Revolt Pedro Enriquez Abuses King Ferdinand VI Injustice
- Exhibition:
- Philippine Food 200
- Source:
- Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial, the largest Renaissance building in the world. It was built from 1563-1584 by Philip II. Rijksmuseum.
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "FREEDOM TO FIND FOOD", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll262.html
Rights
- Rights:
- public domain