Editing Morisco (section)

===Canary Islands===
The situation of the Moriscos in the [[Canary Islands]] was different from on continental Europe. They were not the descendants of Iberian Muslims but were Muslim Moors taken from Northern Africa in Christian raids (''[[cabalgadas]]'') or prisoners taken during the attacks of the [[Barbary pirates]] against the islands. In the Canary Islands, they were held as slaves or freed, gradually converting to Christianity, with some serving as guides in raids against their former homelands. When the king forbade further raids, the Moriscos lost contact with Islam and became a substantial part of the population of the islands, reaching one-half of the inhabitants of [[Lanzarote]]. Protesting their Christianity, they managed to avoid the expulsion that affected European Moriscos. Still subjected to the ethnic discrimination of the ''[[pureza de sangre]]'', they could not migrate to the Americas or join many organizations. Later petitions allowed for their emancipation with the rest of the Canarian population.<ref>Raphael Carrasco, "Morisques et Inquisition dans les Iles Canaries." (Moriscos and the Inquisition in the Canary Islands), ''Revue de l'histoire des religions'' 202.4: 379–387. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23670614 online]</ref>