Thanks to the 1762 Repatriation Project and the partnership between the University of the Philippines Diliman’s History Department and Princeton University’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese, students from both institutions transcribed, translated, and analyzed six manuscripts together in weekly remote classes. These sessions were taught by Prof. Christina Lee, with assistance from Prof. Nicholas Sy, and took place at Princeton’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese and UP Diliman’s Department of History. Three of the manuscripts originated from the 1762 archive. This international collaboration provided Philippine students with insights into interpreting local sources within the broader context of the Spanish transpacific and early modern Spanish imperial projects. Meanwhile, Princeton students benefited from discussions with Filipino students, gaining a deeper understanding of historical indigenous perspectives and the legacy of Spanish colonialism in the Philippines today.
The collaboration resulted in six essays titled:
(1) Freeing the Black Runaways in the Philippines;
(2) Regarding the Torture of the Indio Escribiente;
(4) Fray Domingo de Salazar’s Report about Japan (1587);
(5) Letter from the Count of Lizárraga to segregate the Christians from the Infidels (1713);
