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    The documentary film "The Sulu Sea Raiders" describes the slave trade that emerged in the Sulu Sea region of the southern Philippines before and during Spanish colonization. It focuses on three Filipino-Muslim tribes - the Balangingi Samal, the Ilanuns, and the Sultanate - who were considered looters or pirates as they would pretend to be fishermen before taking captives ashore to sell into slavery. While the Spanish had difficulty capturing the raiders' fast ships, they eventually ordered steamboats from England that were faster and easier to navigate, helping end the slave raids. The documentary examines how religious differences, like between Christianity and Islam, contributed to conflicts between Western colonizers and local populations in Asia

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    The documentary film "The Sulu Sea Raiders" describes the slave trade that emerged in the Sulu Sea region of the southern Philippines before and during Spanish colonization. It focuses on three Filipino-Muslim tribes - the Balangingi Samal, the Ilanuns, and the Sultanate - who were considered looters or pirates as they would pretend to be fishermen before taking captives ashore to sell into slavery. While the Spanish had difficulty capturing the raiders' fast ships, they eventually ordered steamboats from England that were faster and easier to navigate, helping end the slave raids. The documentary examines how religious differences, like between Christianity and Islam, contributed to conflicts between Western colonizers and local populations in Asia

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    The documentary film "The Sulu Sea Raiders" describes the slave trade that emerged in the Sulu Sea region of the southern Philippines before and during Spanish colonization. It focuses on three Filipino-Muslim tribes - the Balangingi Samal, the Ilanuns, and the Sultanate - who were considered looters or pirates as they would pretend to be fishermen before taking captives ashore to sell into slavery. While the Spanish had difficulty capturing the raiders' fast ships, they eventually ordered steamboats from England that were faster and easier to navigate, helping end the slave raids. The documentary examines how religious differences, like between Christianity and Islam, contributed to conflicts between Western colonizers and local populations in Asia

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    RAIDERS OF THE SULU SEA

    The film "The Sulu Sea Raiders" is a one-hour historical documentary that was made in
    2008. The film describes the slave trade that emerged before and during the Spanish
    colonization at the southern tip of Mindanao in Zamboanga. It involves the three Filipino-
    Muslim tribes: the Balangingi Samal, the Ilanuns and the Sultanate, who were considered
    looters or pirates. But as far as the movie goes, they weren't really pirates attacking ships on
    the high seas. They were a kind of "fugitive" looters in which they pretended to be fishermen
    and threw themselves ashore and then took as many people as possible to sell them as slaves.
    Even the Spanish did not know how to capture these raiders due to the latter's ships, but it
    ended when they ordered three faster and easier-to-navigate steamboats from England.
    Despite their loss, the fastest three and easier to navigate steamboats from England. Despite
    their loss the three tribes still showed their will and courage by attacking and raiding the Fort
    Pila, although they did fight the Spaniards, it cannot be denied that they used brutality in
    showing their strength and courage.

    In our current world affairs there are still places in other countries and of course also
    here in the Philippines where wars, discrimination and chaos are continually occurring due to
    our difference in religion, especially Christianity and Islam, religion may be one of the reasons
    why there are long and bloody wars between the West and the natives of Asia, especially the
    Philippines, where the story is centered. It is not unknown to us that the spread of Christianity
    is one of the main objectives of the Western conquerors besides exploration and navigation,
    but it causes contradictions within the existing religion in our country, especially in Mindanao
    where Islam has spread throughout the country.

    Throughout the three and a half centuries of conflict between the Spaniards and the
    populations of the southern Philippines, sea assaults have played a key role, not only for the
    accumulation of wealth and slaves, but also as a means of war and anti-colonial resistance.

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