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Nature has inspired artists for generations. The term art has always conjured visions of beautiful landscapes and natural ...
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 ...
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 ...
A mural of the Clotilda adorns a concrete embankment in Africatown, a community near Mobile founded by Africans illegally transported to Alabama aboard the slave ship. Some of their descendants ...
“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 ...
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 ...
Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London on 23 April ... He is known for the works The Fighting Temeraire, The Slave Ship, The Battle Of Trafalgar and The Burning Of The Houses Of Lords ...
The Henrietta Marie was an English slave ship that mysteriously sank off the coast of Key West in 1700. It was returning from a trip to Jamaica where 191 slaves were sold. Nearly 300 years later ...
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 ...
MOBILE, Ala. — 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 ...