Massacre do Zong
When Roger had first come to Bernie for legal advice, it had been about investments made in South Africa; he needed a loophole, which he had already figured out, and Bernie had advised him. Bernie had said to him that day, "But I don't like this, Roger," and Roger had just smiled at him and said, "You're my legal adviser, Bernie, not my priest."
Elizabeth Strout – Olive, Again (2019)
Penguin Random House UK (2019)
The Slave Ship (1840)
J. M. W. Turner
Turner thus exhibited his painting during the anti-slavery conference, and placed next to the picture his untitled poem, written in 1812:
“Aloft all hands, strike the top-masts and belay;
Yon angry setting sun and fierce-edged clouds
Declare the Typhon’s coming.
Before it sweeps your decks, throw overboard
The dead and dying – ne’er heed their chains
Hope, Hope, fallacious Hope!
Where is thy market now?”
– J. M. W. Turner
Das Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools)