This painting is called slave ship by Joseph Mallard William Turner. It is an oil on canvas, made in 1840. In the painting the slaves are getting thrown overboard and the dead and dying typhoon coming on. In this painting I had to look at it and imagine what was in the water. But when I looked at it in a different way I saw many other things in the water. I saw feet, hands and slaves in the water with chains on them. I also saw big fish that were jumping out of the water. This time in the painting was when slavery happened. This painting represents equality. Slavery is when the white people didn't think the colored people should be treated the same way as them, so they made them work for them. I chose this piece because are tour guide told a story about this ship, and I was interested in all the colors. The sun setting in the back round, then in front was, the ship throwing off the slaves, with big fish jumping out of the water.
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