WEEK 9

Lesson 1: Raiders of the Sulu Sea (Documentary Film)

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.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.