Surviving documents inflate the impression that Moriscos failed to assimilate.

Evidence

We are dealing with a religious group, most of which was at the beginning of our period driven into clandestinity and which had many reasons for avoiding the prying attentions of authority; a group of which many members sought at various periods to slip away illegally abroad and some to “pass” and merge into the majority. These were people who avoided registration. Nevertheless, it is necessary to form some estimate of the proportion of the total population with whom we are concerned, even if we preserve a good measure of skepticism about the reliability of any results. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 84 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Forced dispersal of Granada’s Moriscos failed to produce assimilation. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1113; Among the Morisco letters that passed to historians, several were fabricated.; The Granadan deportation scheme failed to integrate Moriscos into Castilian society — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1486 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Moriscos evaded census registration by hiding, fleeing, and passing #complicates (0.74) — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 84