Valencian nobles’ land productivity depended on Morisco labor

Evidence

Other disadvantages included a shortage of foodstuffs to be foreseen in the years immediately after the Expulsion (“because the Moriscos as a whole are the ones who provide supplies”) and a decline in the incomes of the Valencian nobles because the productivity of their lands depended on the Moriscos. (This was judged by Reinoso to be the greatest drawback to a policy of expulsion.) — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1376