Philperiodicals

The Trial and Death of Bonifacio

Panorama was an English-speaking Sunday magazine created in 1936. It went dark in 1941 after the Japanese invasion, and only managed to come back after Dec 7. 1955. From the very beginning, Filipino intellectuals such as Claro M. Recto or Carlos P. Rónulo wrote for Panorama, and in the 60s important Filipino scholars such as Teodoro Agoncillo and Cesar Adib Majul published works in the magazine. During the process of revision of the Philippine revolution that started in that decade, Panorama published “The trial and death of Bonifacio”, an illustrated essay by historian Teodoro Agoncillo in which he tried to elucidate how Andres Bonifacio was killed by the revolutionaries and tried to make him justice. For Agoncillo, both the accusations and the populace had a strong prejudice against him, and the trial wasn't fair, to the point that Bonifacio wasn’t even told his sentence. He was shocked and tried to run, but was shot at Mount Thala and buried in an unknown location. Agoncillo’s account, based on sources, humanized Bonifacio’s figure and distanced himself from the more neutral and depoliticized views of the previous years, offering a more objective and nuanced view of the tumultuous years of the revolution.

Fuente

Agoncillo, Teodoro. "The trial and death of Bonifacio", Panorama, vol. XIV, num. 5, May 1962, pp. 83-90. In Open Access Repository @ UPD.

Relación

Agoncillo, Teodoro A. 2017. The revolt of the masses: the story of Bonifacio and the Katipunan. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press.
Bonifacio, Andres, Teodoro A. Agoncillo, and Antonio J. Villegas. 1963. The writings and trial of Andres Bonifacio. Manila: A.J. Villegas and the Manila Bonifacio Centennial Commission in cooperation with the University of the Philippines.

Autoría

Teodoro Agoncillo

Editor

Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository

Colaborador

Emilio Vivó Capdevila

Idioma

English

Fecha

1962-05

Materia

Andrés Bonifacio

Panorama

Philippine Revolution

Teodoro Agoncillo