ABSTRACT
In Chapter 5, women are represented as enslaved individuals. The difficulty of the assimilation of the Moriscos and in particular of the Morisca women, reputed to be very obstinate (García Arenal 116–25), was a project fraught with difficulty and ultimately abandoned in favor of their complete expulsion under the reign of Felipe III. The protagonist of one pliego suelto, Juana Errada, has successfully resisted assimilation, all the while giving the impression that she is in full compliance, and has committed a number of criminal acts. The story of Juana Errada resonates with historian Mary Elizabeth Perry’s engrossing profile of an enslaved Muslim woman in “Finding Fatima, a Slave Woman of Early Modern Spain.” In this chapter, there is also a discussion of the history of Muslim and Morisco slavery and of the history and repercussions of the expulsion of the Moriscos in Spain.
