Filibustero, Rizal, and the Manilamen of the Nineteenth Century

• Main Author: Aguilar, Filomeno V, Jr
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2011
• Subjects: Cavite Mutiny; revolution; filibuster; migrant workers; Cuba; Politics and Social Change; Sociology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/31; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1030&context=history-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This article traces the provenance and the multiple layers of meaning, as well as the contradictions encoded, in the word filibustero from its origins among pirates in the Caribbean in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the American military adventurers in the nineteenth century, whose compl...