Keywords
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People
Juan Ynbin was a Sangley (Filipino Chinese) Christian, working as a stonecutter at the church in Casaysay, a town near Taal. He was one of the primary witnesses of a Marian apparition that was investigated for veracity by the Augustians. His name appears 143 times in the transcriptions and translations, the most of any individual in the databse. See the document pages…
Places
Acapulco plays an outsized role in Galleon era Philippine History. It was the primary port of call for the colossal trading vessels after their monthslong voyage from Manila. It appears mostly in practical and business-like documents. See the document pages…
Ethnicity
Indio is the term recycled by the Spanish to refer not only to Filipinos, but any people native to the lands they tried to subjgate. In the documents, it is used in a neutral, descriptive way in most cases, but it’s general deployment in the language suggests the depths of ethnic stratification in Spanish colonial society, who described even themselves using three distinct terms. See the document pages…