Forced Morisco resettlement plans collapsed because nobody volunteered to stay
Evidence
- In six houses out of every hundred the Morisco inhabitants were to remain behind to show those who took over the properties how to work, among other things, the sugar mills and irrigation systems. These were to be chosen from among the most likely to convert. As far as one can discover, this incredibly insensitive clause remained inoperative: nobody would stay. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1437
Categorization
- CANDY: The detail that no one chose to stay behind even to teach the sugar mills is almost darkly funny — a perfect conversation piece about failed bureaucracy.