An expelled Morisco raided Spanish ships then was enslaved and re-catholicized

Evidence

A native of Benillup, [Amet] Moro had gone to Algiers at the time of the expulsion, where he had lived for three years. During that time he turned corsair, and served on several corsair boats engaged in raiding Spanish shipping. He was eventually captured and made a slave in Valencia city. At the outset he pretended with some success to be a Moor, but was finally brought before the Holy Office after he was captured, along with several other slaves, trying to escape. In his testimony before the tribunal he admitted his Valencian birth and baptism, but showed clear signs of repentance and a desire to receive instruction in Roman Catholicism. Seemingly unimpressed, the tribunal handed down the relatively severe sentence of perpetual imprisonment with the first three years to be spent in galley service. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1678

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: A born story — a corsair who fakes being a Moor, gets captured, tries to escape, then recants and begs for Catholic instruction — the identity-switching thriller compressed into one Inquisition record. The shift from raider to supplicant is Shakespearean.
• FICTION: The reversals — enemy of Spain turned slave in Spain, pretended Moor’s confession — form a tight narrative arc usable near-verbatim.
• XREF: connects to: Cervantes portrayed expelled moriscos sympathetically during mass expulsion