Muslim slaves were allowed to stay in Spain but recaptured Morisco refugees were not

Evidence

In general, the Muslim slave belonging to a Christian master was allowed to remain, because he was the property of his master. But then within this category was the even more awkward subcategory of Morisco refugees from Spain taken captive in North Africa (as, for example, in skirmishes round the Spanish presidio enclaves such as Oran). As we will see, the fear here seems to have been that they would have children who might eventually be manumitted, so that the Morisco problem might start up all over again. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1524

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the fertility anxieties that drive ethnic cleansing and caste policies generally — echoes the ‘grafting’ theme of population engineering.
• SEED: Article angle: how population-engineering regimes obsess over the reproduction of the expelled group rather than just its physical removal.