Slavery In Sulu Flashcards
Was primarily a property relations but not exclusively so
Slavery in Sulu sultanate
Banyaga, bisaya, ipun or ammas
Chattel slaves
Kiapangdilihan
Bond slaves
Were either the victims or the offspring of victims of slave raids
Banyaga
Commoner tausug whose servility was the direct result of personal debt
Kiapangdilihan
Was a means of incorporating people in the Tausug social system
Slavery
Principle mode of Tausug recruitment
Capture in raiding
Were an integral part of a creditors following but with a lower status than freemen
Kiapangdilihan
Enabled datus to command the labor of Tausug commoners to ensure the military and labor reserves they required
Indebtedness
As an economic institution was most fully developed at the end of the 19th century
Debt bondage
Body of law codified from custom and precedent as Islamic law
Sulu code
Recognized the existence of slavery but placed strict conditions on its practice
Sharia ah
Islamic law
Murder
Luwaran code
Article 57
Were permitted to purchase their freedom and assume a new status and ethnicity
Banyaga
Stated that on the east coast of Borneo the relations was that of the follower and lord rather than slave and master
William Pryer