Spanish galleys staged false reassurance via captive testimonies to expellees

Evidence

Landing the poor people there was easy; it was getting them across the land frontier into Muslim territory that presented problems. The galleys could achieve a swift turn-round in the Spanish-controlled port, and when they reported back to Denia, they were even able to display some Moriscos ready to tell their coreligionists still in Spain that those who had already made the crossing had arrived safe and sound. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1463

Categorization

• SEED: The transportation of captive Moriscos back to reassure others awaiting expulsion is a chilling propaganda operation worth an article about how deportation regimes manufacture consent among victims.
• STORYSTEM: A scene where authorities parade a captive who recites pre-scripted reassurances to his own community is an eerie, usable fiction device about manufactured consent.
• FICTION: The coercive staged reassurance of deportees offers a vivid narrative image.