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Rizal and His Times
Rizal and His Times
Such as.
The conflict over the Negro slaves
compelled President Lincoln to issue his
Emancipation Proclamation on 1863.
In the Philippines
The Filipino people agonized beneath the
yoke of Spanish misrule, for they were
unfortunate victims of the evils of an
unjust, bigoted and deteriorating colonial
power.
and.
Rizal could attest on the evil events that
made Filipinos felt marginalized,
discriminated and poorly administered.
INSTABILITY OF COLONIAL
ADMINISTRATION
The political turmoil that Spain
experiencing during that time was of great
effect to administer its colonized countries.
It brought frequent periodic shifts in
colonial policies and a periodic rigodon of
colonial officials.
For example, from 1834 1897, the
Philippines was ruled by 50 governors
general , that at one time a period of less
than a year, there were four Governor
Generals.
Hardly had one governor-general begun his
administration when he was soon replaced
by his succesor.
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
Racial prejudice was prevalent everywherein government offices, in the courts of
justice, in the armed forces and even in the
educational institutions and in the
ecclesiastical hierarchy.
FRAILOCRACY
So named because it was a government of
the friars
The friars practically ruled the Philippines
through a faade of civil government. The
colonial authorities, from the governor
general down to the Alcaldes Mayores,
were under the control of the friars.
FORCED LABOR
Known as the polo, it was the
compulsory labor imposed by the Spanish
colonial authorities on adult Filipino males.
The well-to-do Filipinos were able to
escape this manual labor by paying the
falla, which was a sum of money paid to
the government to be exempted from
rendeing services.