Morisca wet nurses were ordered to return their nursing infants
Evidence
Item, mando su Se˜nor´ıa por segundo preg´on que qualquiera Morisca de Sevilla y su tierra que tuviere criaturas criando de la cuna, las buelvan dentro del dicho t´ermino. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1877
Categorization
- CANDY: A grim, vivid detail: a second proclamation specifically required Morisca wet nurses to hand back the babies they were nursing — the micro-scale human cost of a mass expulsion.