16 - Robert Morris (PA)

#16 - Robert Morris (PA)
Birthplace: Liverpool, England
Age at Convention: 53

1) Religion
-- Unable to find documentation that religion was a priority in his life.

2) Slavery
-- May have helped finance slave trading
-- Owned slaves that worked as house hold servants
-- Supported the non-importation agreements that marked the end of the slave trade into Philadelphia

3) Upbringing
-- At age 13, emigrated to Maryland to join his father, a tobacco exporter

References:
1) http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/convention/delegates/morris_r.html
2) http://www.ushistory.org/presidentshouse/news/inq032007.htm
3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morris_(financier)

Running tabulation:
1) Religiously Active (25) or Primarily Secular (15)
2) Abolitionist (16), Partial Abolitionist (19) or Non-Abolitionist (5)
3) Wealthy (16) or Middle-Class/Poor (24)