Detail of The Slave Ship by J.M.W. Turner. (Barney Burstein / Corbis / VCG via Getty Images) In the middle of 1856, the soon-to-be-celebrated poet Walt Whitman visited an impounded slave ship in ...

Matt Cosby for The New York Times And here alone, the London pictures have been joined by a Turner too fragile and valuable to travel: the M.F.A.’s grand and gruesome “Slave Ship (Slavers ...

Turner was quite thoroughly aware of the social and political conditions of his time. The most famous and certainly one of the most powerful paintings in the show, MFA’s “The Slave Ship ...

Decades later, in 1906, when Abache (Clara Turner) talked of the filth ... many hope the discovery of the last slave ship will bring Mobilians together to acknowledge their shared history and ...

Count, and it adds up. There’s John Singleton Copley, with “Watson and the Shark,” 1778, a beloved piece from the MFA collection, and J.M.W. Turner’s “Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing ...

The last known US slave ship is too “broken” and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists, engineers ...

“One of the chiefs took a vessel we had, filled it with soil and asked us to bring that vessel back to the site of the slave ship so that, for the first time since the 18th century, his people ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The last known U.S. slave ship is too “broken” and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of ...