Season 6 · Episode 10
S6E5: Who Murdered Señor Villegas?
The Colonial Department · The Colonial Department
November 10, 202414m 12s
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<html><p>When the guardia civil forced the Intramuros house of Victor Villegas open, they found a trail of blood that led all the way to a bathroom. Inside was the bloody corpse of the señor, his head smashed in, his body stripped to his underclothes. The police’s immediate suspects? The houseboys.</p><p>Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a></p><p>Follow us on TikTok: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thecolonialdept" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a></p><p>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a></p><p><br/></p><p>Thumbnail Image: "Panguingue (Natives Playing Cards)." Jose Taviel de Andrade, ca. 1895. In Jose Maria Carino (2004), <em>Islas Filipinas 1663-1888, </em>Ars Mundi.</p><p><br/></p><p>References:</p><p>Sayno, Mariano (20 March 2016). “Subic Spanish Gate: Sentinel of History in Olongapo’s Naval Legacy.” <em>Beauty of the Philippines. </em><a href="https://www.beautyofthephilippines.com/subic-spanish-gate/" target="_blank">https://www.beautyofthephilippines.com/subic-spanish-gate/</a></p><p>Bankoff, Greg (1992). “Servant-Master Conflicts in Manila in the Late Nineteenth Century.” <em>Philippine Studies</em>, <em>40</em>(3), pp. 281-301.</p><p>Bankoff, Greg (1993). “Inside the Courtroom: Judicial Procedures in Nineteenth Century Philippines.” <em>Philippine Studies, 41</em>(3), pp. 287-304.<em> </em></p><p>Coo, Stephanie (2019). <em>Clothing the Colony: Nineteenth-Century Philippine Sartorial Culture, 1820-1896. </em>Ateneo de Manila University Press.</p><p>Mallat, Jean (1846). <em>The Philippines: History, Geography, Customs, Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce of the Spanish Colonies in Oceania</em> (Pura Santillan-Castrence, Trans.) (2021). National Historical Commission of the Philippines.</p><p>“Reglamento Provisional para la Policia de la Servidumbre Domestica” (1881). <a href="https://bibliotecadigital.aecid.es/bibliodig/es/catalogo_imagenes/descargarImprimir.do?id=descarga_1014590-1728387479953&multiple=false&idGrupo=1014590" target="_blank">https://bibliotecadigital.aecid.es/bibliodig/es/catalogo_imagenes/descargarImprimir.do?id=descarga_1014590-1728387479953&multiple=false&idGrupo=1014590</a><br/></p></html>