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. Henry ...

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It bears a striking resemblance to Joseph Mallord William Turner's The Slave Ship, painted in 1840. According to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the painting is "one of Turner's most celebrated ...

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...