Rita Singer<p>📢 ERTHYGL NEWYDD 📢 NEW ARTICLE 📢<br>VALENTINE MORRIS (1727 - 1789), colonial administrator and landowner<br>'On his father's death in 1743, Morris inherited the Piercefield estate, along with substantial plantations in Antigua including a great number of enslaved people. These included Looby's, Crabb's, and Martin's in St Paul Parish in southern Antigua and Jolly's in St Mary Parish in western Antigua. In 1776, Morris was rated as owning 1,004 acres on the island, which was worked by 284 enslaved people. As Ivor Waters strikingly puts it, 'The elegant Valentine Morris owned Piercefield in Monmouthshire, worth £50,000 and Piercefield, a slave in Antigua, worth £10.' He was largely an absentee plantation owner while in Britain, apart from a visit to Antigua in 1754 following a period of drought there.' -- Adam Coward</p><p>Read the full story here: <a href="https://biography.wales/article/s15-MORR-VAL-1771" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">biography.wales/article/s15-MO</span><span class="invisible">RR-VAL-1771</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wales</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/BritishEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BritishEmpire</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/EighteenthCentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EighteenthCentury</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Bywgraffiadur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bywgraffiadur</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/DiversityProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DiversityProject</span></a> </p><p>Darlun/Image: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valentine_Morris_(1727-1789),_Governor_of_Saint_Vincent,_by_Allan_Ramsay.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil</span><span class="invisible">e:Valentine_Morris_(1727-1789),_Governor_of_Saint_Vincent,_by_Allan_Ramsay.jpg</span></a></p>