About 235 years ago, a settlement was established by Filipino deserters from Spanish ships at Saint Malo in the bayous of Louisiana, near the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. The people who settled there were called Manilamen, who jumped ship during the galleon trade era off New Orleans, Louisiana, and Acapulco, Mexico, to escape Spanish brutalities. Known as Tagalas,* they spoke Spanish and a Malay dialect.** They lived together—governing themselves and living in peace and harmony—without the world knowing about their swamp existence.

http://www.filipinoamericans.net/manilamen.shtml

a better or known name for this research is "manila man".

and for those that gonna jump the gun "spanish ain't brutes. we had it better then"....


please tell why these "manila men" jump ship? if they had it good.

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The Manilamen Fisherman Village in Louisiana was destroyed by Katrina and its sad.

Dude, almost everything in louisiana was destroyed by katrina...

that place first got with a Hurricane 1915 and again in 1960's with another Hurricane completely washing it away.

Hurricane Katrina was just recent event in this century.