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Cavity Mutiny Analysis

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The Cavity Mutiny – An Essay on the Published Sources: Article Review We study history but do we really know the real story? Are the published writings about the events and persons that shaped our present today veracious? Or the story that we believed about the past has been modified for some unknown purpose? The essay that John Schumacher wrote was very helpful for us to understand history in an unbiased manner and as to what events had and had not happened. He presented several writings regarding the Cavity Mutiny of the different authors and we can see the differences of their views according to their sources and knowledge of the event. On the account of Jose Montero y Vidal, he presented the Cavity Mutiny as a general revolt led by the three …show more content…

Pardo de Tavera and Pedro Paterno, considered as close relatives of the participants in the mutiny. According to Pardo, there was no plot to overthrow the Spanish rule and that the Cavite mutiny was simply an uprising due to the disaffection of arsenal workers who were not exempted from the tribute together with other Filipinos who sympathize with them. It was the friars who stirred up the anti-friar sentiments and the overthrowing of the Spanish sovereignty so that they can persuade the government to punish anyone without inquiring their guilt. Pardo simply gave a general picture of the event. The other author, Pedro Paterno, whose father Maximo had been deported to the Marianas in 1872, asserted that the revolts in the nineteenth century were reformist and not separatist in nature, where Filipinos wanted control of their own affairs. One document, a pamphlet by Jose M. Basa, one of the participants of Cavite revolt addressed to the American Consul-General, was asking for American intervention to force Spanish withdrawal from the country because of its abuses and misgovernment. His statement and that of Piernavieja is quite similar about the impersonation of Father

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