"The Spaniards, says Morga, were accustomed to hold as slaves such

natives as they bought and others that they took in the forays in the
conquest or pacification of the islands." Consequently in this respect the
"pacifiers" introduced no moral improvement. We even do not know if in
their wars the Filipinos used to make slaves of each other, though that
would not have been strange, for the chroniclers tell of captives returned
to their own people. The practice of the Southern pirates almost proves
this, although in these piratical wars the Spaniards were the first
aggressors and gave them their character.