1. THE STORM CLOUD OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Pollution | Ecology | Agency

7. Zong Massacre, 1781 “What is this claim that human people have been thrown overboard? This is a case of chattels or goods. Blacks are goods and property; it is madness to accuse these well- serving honourable men of murder. They acted out of necessity and in the most appropriate manner for the cause. The late Captain Collingwood acted in the interest of his ship to protect the safety of his crew. To question the judgement of an experienced well-travelled captain held in the highest regard is one of folly, especially when talking of slaves. The case is the same as if wood had been thrown overboard.” -John Lee, Solicitor General, 1781

8. The boundaries of “the human” Human Things Property JMW Turner, Slavers Overthrowing the Dead and Dying – Typhoon Coming On (1840)

9. John Ruskin, from Modern Painters, on “Slave Ship” Purple and blue, the lurid shadows of the hollow breakers are cast upon the mist of night, which gathers cold and low, advancing like the shallow of death upon the guilty ship as it labours amidst the lightning of the sea, its thin masts written upon the sky in lines of blood, girded with condemnation in that fearful hue which signs the sky with horror, and mixes its flaming flood with the sunlight, and, cast far along the desolate heave of the sepulchral waves, incarnadines the multitudinous sea.