RAIDERS

• Contextual analysis - considers specifically the time, place and situation when the primary source was written.
• CONTENT ANALYSIS is a systematic evaluation of the primary source. It can be a text, painting, caricature, and/or speech that in the process where students could develop and argue based on their own understanding of the evidences from their readings.
• Slave holding was a primary form of investment in Sulu.
• Selling rate - refers to the exchange rate used by the bank to sell foreign exchange to customers.
• Tao Pang - a tribal leader; the provider of slaves for Southern Sultanates.
• Slave raiding- is a military raid for the purpose of capturing people and bringing them from the raid area to serve as slaves. They would bore a hole through the captured people's palm and put a string into it. It had been practiced among some tribe in the Philippines and it was legal during 18th century.
• In the 18th Century, coastal inhabitants of the Philippines faced constant threats from raiders of the Sulu Sea, known as the Illanuns.
• The raiders, including groups like the Balangingi-Samal Tribe, Illanuns, and Taosugs.
• The documentary film addressed the resistance of the People in the South, the Moros, from the Spanish-American Colonial forces in the Southern region of the Philippines.
• The Moro People are not really pirates or rebels but indigenous people who demonstrated resistance from the Spanish forces.
• The most celebrated attack was the December 8th, 1970 attack by King Dalasi.
• The Moro act was an act of retaliation against the foreign occupier and was sanctioned by the sultanates in the name of a higher course: Islam.
• Spaniards were concerned about the commercial interests of the region and to propagate Christianity.
• Slave-raiding was part of the bigger regional trade in the Islands of Southeast Asia.
• Artifacts originating from China that was found in Butuan City ate proof of the great distances travelled by the Sea farers of Sulu and the trading activities they were involved in.
• The Western Colonial Ruling sand open-armed conflicts in the Southern region of the Philippines cause the impoverishment of Muslim Areas economically and religiously.. The Three Muslim Tribes.
• Icelle Gloria Durano Borja Estrada

  was born in Zamboanga City.
• Icelle Gloria Durano Borja Estrada is the 7th generation direct descendant of Vicente Alvarez, the hero of Zamboanga City during the Spanish-American War.
• Icelle Gloria Durano Borja Estrada earned her first degree at Western Mindanao State University (WMSU) of Bachelor of Science in History Education.
• Icelle Gloria Durano Borja Estrada is a collector of art and is a member of the National Commission on Museums of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts of the Philippines.
• Dr. Samuel Kong Tan is a Samal-Taosug-Chinese Filipino born in Stasi, Sulu.
• Dr. Samuel Kong Tan earned his Masters Degree in History at University of the Philippines Diliman and his Doctoral in Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies at Syracuse University, New York, USA.
• Dr. Samuel Kong Tan published Author and served as the Chairperson of UP Diliman's Department of History and was also the Chairman and Executive Director of the National Historical Institute in 1998.
• Dr. Samuel Kong Tan is well-known for his famous book "A History of the Philippines", briefly describes the human history and culture of the Philippines, focusing on three Filipino cultural communities-the Moros, the Indios, and the Infieles-and examining how these groups reflect the country's history and development.
• Dr. Samuel Kong Tan shared his view about the colonial depictions of Moro "Slave raiding in the Philippines coastal towns where it demonstrated the open-armed resistance to the colonial rule of the Muslims.
• Prof. Barbara Watson Andaya was born on June 7, 1943, is an Australian historian and author who studies Indonesia and Maritime Southeast Asian History.
• Prof. Barbara Watson Andaya had done extensive researches on women's history in Southeast Asia, and of late, on the localization of Christianity in the Region.
• Prof. Barbara Watson Andaya received her Bachelor of Arts and Diploma of Education in Asian Studies from the University of Sydney.
• Prof. Barbara Watson Andaya also earned her Doctoral in Philosophy in Southeast Asian University at Comell University with a specialization in Southeast Asian History and got her Masters Degree at the University of Hawaii.
• Prof. Barbara Watson Andaya teaches courses as a full-time professor in Asian Studies and is the director of the University's Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
• Prof. Barbara Watson Andaya was the president of the American Association for Asian Studies from 2005 to 2006.
• Dr. Julius Bautista is currently appointed as Senior Lecturer at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore.
• Dr. Julius Bautista remains as an Associate of the Religion and Globalization in Asian Contexts Cluster at Asia Research Institute.
• Dr. Julius Bautista is an anthropologist and cultural historian who earned a Doctorate degree in Philosophy in Southeast Asian Studies from the Center for Asian Societies and Histories at the Australian National University.
• Dr. Julius Bautista was a Visiting Fellow at ARI's Religion and Globalization in Asian Contexts Cluster from 2005 to 2011.
• Dr. Julius Bautista teaching and research interests include Catholicism in the Philippines, Comparative World Religions, The material culture of Southeast Asia, Pain, Nociception and religious ritual, Ethnographic practice and methodology, and Asian-Australian heritage scholarship.
• Halman Abubakar a Taosug and a town councilor of Jolo, Sulu, and is member of the educated Abubakar Clan of Jolo.
• Halman Abubakar asserts that the attacks on the Spanish forces were the Moro reaction to Spanish and American imposition on the Moro People.
• Halman Abubakar promotes indigenous martial arts "Silat" historic and significant on Taosug bladed weapons; as a form of self- defense and glorifies the historic and symbolic significance of these weapons.
• Halman Abubakar also shares the sentiments of his people by resenting the characterization of Western Colony and Filipino historiography as "pirates"