Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress ...

In 1860, an illegal bet brought the last known captive Africans to U.S. shores aboard Clotilda. Their story is one of tragedy and resilience. Captive Africans are taken by boat to the slave ship ...

This painting is titled The Slave Ship, or as it was originally called, Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhoon Coming On by JW Turner. This title reveals the harrowing story of what we ...

Joseph Mallord William Turner, "Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)," 1840. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The Henriqueta’s owner, José de Cerqueira Lima, operated a fleet of slave ships and was probably the wealthiest man in Brazil’s leading slave port, the city of Bahia, where he lived in luxury ...

Both Charles Campbell and Camille Turner have been thinking about their ancestors. Jamaican-born visual artists working in Canada – he’s in Victoria; she is a Torontonian now living in L.A ...

The Clotilda was the last slave ship to land in the United States, in 1860. In a heavily researched book, Hannah Durkin tells the story of the Clotilda’s voyage and its aftermath.

It highlights Turner’s atmospheric style that “often showed the extreme danger of the waters”. The Exhibition brings together the works of Turner and an “immersive sound environment from artist and ...

Garner reinterprets J.M.W. Turner’s composition in the 1840 painting “The Slave Ship” as an epic scene in flesh: a sky of white skin and a bloody sunset — an abstraction of the scene that ...