Seatwork 1: The Battle of Haciendas

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Seatwork 1: The Battle of Haciendas

One interesting side in the issue of friar lands was the comparison between two of the largest
friar estates during that time – the hacienda de Calamba and that of the haciendas in Negros.
Different areas where covered in comparing the two friar lands giving both the pluses and
minuses of each.

Instructions: In a tabulated form, compare and contrast Hacienda de Calamba and the
haciendas in Negros. Use as reference the reading material below:

Aguilar, Filomeno. 2016. Sugar capitalism: The divergent paths of haciendas on Negros Island
and the Hacienda de Calamba. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies forthcoming.

CALAMBA NEGROS
It was under a large-scale estate run by It was a range of haciendas of varying sizes
religious corporation involving different ethnicities under
supported by foreign merchant houses

Dominican owners of Calamba relied on a Negros’ sugar planters, also known as


sector of wealthy leaseholders, also known hacenderos, comprised of a multiethnic
as inquilinos, who were generally local immigrant class of landowners whom
Chinese mestizos, who mobilized a stratum directly hired their own tenants while
of subtenants on sharecropping others employed oversees who supervised
arrangements. the tenantry.

Chinese Mestizo lessees relied on their own Hacenderos relied on loans and capital
money or capital. They also relied on advances that were sourced directly from
Chinese moneylenders that directly brought foreign merchant houses.
the goods to foreign merchants in Manila.

Calamba has large fields of sugar Negros varies in sizes of fields but not larger
than of Calamba’s fields

Only one way to acquire land for sugar Various schemes in acquiring land. These
cultivation: entering a leasehold contract are ranging from outright purchase to
(inquilinato) with the hacienda owner leasing, land grabbing (usurpacion),
through the friar admin. acquiring foreclosed property (embargado),
and opening a new land.
The inquilinos in Calamba did not attach The Negros hacenderos practiced
themselves from farm work sharecropping.

Hacienda de Calamba was an enclosed Negros was a different world. There were
world, an enclave economy, and an no strict demarcation between Chinese
ethnically stratified society mestizos and the naturales
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