Savages

The Filipino-American War pictorial series #1
I chanced upon my copy of Neely’s Photographs Fighting in the Philippines, a pictorial book on Filipino-American war and I felt a strong imperative to share some of the more telling pictures in it. The pictures speak for themselves. The captions amplify the colonizer’s sentiments.

A century ago, the maids and global slave workers called Filipinos were called savages.