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 ...

Now her living grandchildren are learning of her life and legacy. An undated portrait of Matilda McCrear, the slave ship Clotilda's last survivor, shows her in her later years. She died in 1940 at ...

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 ... in 1840, just seven years after England had abolished ...

Perhaps this painting serves as a reminder of the insistent strength of human will and family. The Slave Ship by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1840) Joseph Mallord William Turner, an English Romantic ...

and J.M.W. Turner’s “Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On),” 1840, a canvas blistered with the trauma of enslaved people swallowed by the sea.

As the title of his painting suggests, he claims to have set sail on a ship called the Ariel, but researchers have been unable to find proof of the vessel’s existence. Some believe Turner got ...

Launched from a Baltimore shipyard in 1824, the ship was designed for the thriving Brazilian slave trade and thus for speed. For slavers, Mr. Taylor writes, “speed was the prime virtue in a ...

The ship is “too broken” and “too decayed” to be evacuated, archaeologists say. The task force headed by the Alabama Historical Commission determined that the Clotilda, the last ship known ...

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 archaeologists, engineers and ...

His canvas was inspired as a consequence of viewing JMW Turner’s painting ‘Slave Ship’ which was exhibited at the British Royal Academy Exhibition in 1840. Turner depicted one of the most shameful ...