Pacto de Sangre

• One of the authors that are still alive, his account is one of the basis in interpreting the Pacto de Sangre.

  Filomeno Aguilar
• He wrote "The Propaganda Movement: 1880-1895"

  Schumacher
• As quoted by Aguilar from Schumacher's book, this is said to be a practice that was based on a "custom among the ancient Filipinos of sealing a treaty of alliance and friendship by mixing the blood taken from an incision in the arms of the two leaders entering into an alliance in an alcoholic drink that both leaders drank."

  Pacto de Sangre
• Was the Ritual brought by the Spaniards? Yes or No


  No
• Why was the ritual established? To seal friendship and

  Siblinghood
• Aside from friendship, what else was the ritual for?

  Alliance
• He interpreted the blood compact between Sikatuna and Legazpi not just as a "sign of friendship" but also the unification "into a single ideal the aspirations of Spain and the Philippines"

  Marcelo H. del Pilar
• He believed that the oath was invalid at the start

  Andres Bonifacio
• In this book, Bonifacio detailed how the Katagalugan fared well - "Nabubuhay sa lubos na kasaganaan at kaguinhhawahan"- even before the Spaniards came.

  Ang Dapat Mabatid ng mga Tagalog
• He agreed with del Pilar, saying that the oath was valid

  Apolinario Mabini