...demands themselves. The stormy Fates descend; one Death involves 1015 Tyrants and Slaves; when strait, their mangled Limbs Crashing at once, he dyes the...purple Seas With Gore, and riots in the vengeful Meal. When o'er this World, by Equinoctial Bains Flooded immense, looks out the joyless Sun, zozo And draws...

...justice could be as much a part of nature as of God. In Thomson's vivid image, a shark following a ship "of that cruel trade,/ Which spoils unhappy Guinea of her sons,/ Demands his share of prey." And when a storm dashes the ship to pieces, the sharks riot in a "vengeful meal" of tyrants and slaves....

...partners of that cruel trade Which spoils unhappy Guinea of her sons Demands his share of prey—demands themselves. The stormy fates descend: one death involves...Tyrants and slaves; when straight, their mangled limbs Crushing at once, he dyes the purple seas With gore, and riots in the vengeful meal. 52 Thomson's passage—its...

...trade routes is succeeded by one of the shark feasting upon the human detritus of the slave trade: And, from the Partners of that cruel Trade, Which...Sons, Demands his share of Prey, demands themselves. (Summer, 11. 1019-21) The power of this episode for eighteenth- and nineteenthcentury readers contemplating...

...trade routes is succeeded by one of the shark feasting upon the human detritus of the slave trade: And, from the Partners of that cruel Trade, Which...Sons, Demands his share of Prey, demands themselves. (Summer, 11. 1019-21) The power of this episode for eighteenth- and nineteenthcentury readers contemplating...

...whose demands serve to equalize slave traders and slaves in a gory commonality of suffering and death: And from the partners of that cruel trade Which spoils unhappy Guinea of her sons Demands his share of prey—demands themselves. The stormy fates descend: one death involves Tyrants and slaves; when straight,...

...of these storms, His jaws horrific armed with threefold fate, Here dwells the direful shark. [. . .] And from the partners of that cruel trade Which spoils...purple seas With gore, and riots in the vengeful meal. (Thomson 1961: 89) These lines offer an immediate source for Turner's composition of 'The Slave Ship',...

...that cruel trade Which spoils unhappy Guinea of her sons, 1020 Demands his share of prey—demands themselves. The stormy fates descend : one death involves...purple seas With gore, and riots in the vengeful meal. When o'er this world, by equinoctial rains Flooded immense, looks out the joyless sun, / And draws...