JMW Turner's: The Slave Ship

Extra information about this painting:

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/later-europe-and-americas/enlightenment-revolution/v/turner-slave-ship-slavers-throwing-overboard-the-dead-and-dying-typhoon-coming-on-1840 Links to an external site.

After you read the info in the link above, listen to this song. (Click on the link below) It is not directly related to the painting, but does relate to a mythology that was developed based on pregnant slaves that were thrown overboard in order to collect insurance money. 

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/623/we-are-in-the-future?act=3#play Links to an external site.