Hacienda de Cala

mba Conflict
 Rizal's family rented one
of the largest area lands
in Calamba, measuring
approximately 380
hectares.

Sugar was one of the

major commodity planted
in the hacienda.
1883
Paciano Rizal wrote that
the friars were collecting
rents without issuing the
usual receipts.

Two years later,

the tenants failed
to pay their rents.
Complaints

Yearly
increase in
rentals.

Faulty irrigation Failure to issue

systems. receipts.
 1887
 Colonial government demanded from the tenants of
the hacienda a report on the income and production
of the estate.
 Reason: they suspected that the Dominicans
were evading payment of their taxes.

 The tenants submitted a report and

attached the petition authored by José
Rizal.
To show resistance, some of the tenants
began to withhold rents.

1891
 As a form of retaliation, the friars began to
evict tenants who refused to pay rent.

 Those who still persisted in resisting the

friars were eventually expelled.
 Rizal's parents, brother and
sisters.
The experience affected
Rizal deeply and the
increasing despair he felt
from the event would be
reflected in his second
novel, El Filibusterismo.
THANK YOU!
Angelica D. Moralejo
BSA 3-A