J.M.W. Turner’s 1840 painting "Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)" depicts the callous cruelty of the slave trade. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

J.M.W. Turner, “Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On),” from 1840, “the most enduring of all abolitionist works of art. ...

Wreckage of the last slave ship to bring slaves to the U.S., the Clotilda, may have been found near Mobile, AL. "I'm quaking with excitement. This would be a story of world historical significance ...

A view of "Turner’s Modern World" exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, running through July 10, 2022. (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) As you walk into the first gallery of the ...

Joseph Mallord William Turner, "Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)," 1840. Henry Lillie Pierce Fund.

A number of works remained with Mrs. Booth and it was from her that Ruskin purchased this watercolor study in 1880. In it, Turner worked out the fish for the lower right corner of The Slave Ship.

The incident, which was included in "The History and Abolition of the Slave Trade" by Thomas Clarkson (a second edition was published in 1839) is thought to have inspired Turner's painting. "Slave ...

"These ships were the 18-wheelers of their day. They were designed to haul a huge amount of cargo in relatively shallow water," said Winthrop Turner, a shipwright specializing in wooden vessels.

Sondra Perry’s First Solo European Show Engulfs Visitors in Turner’s “The Slave Ship” Typhoon Coming On challenges visitors to consider the UK’s complicity in the dehumanisation of black ...

In a Twitter storm on Monday evening Kanye West referred to himself as Moses and slave rebellion leader Nat Turner. The artist also said he won’t be making any more music under his contracts ...

It features a ship sailing through rough seas into a red and orange sunset. It bears a striking resemblance to Joseph Mallord William Turner's The Slave Ship, painted in 1840.