Human injustice takes many forms.
An artist can influence public attitudes and opinions that promote a moral and ethical responsibility to change the cruel and inhuman treatment of slaves. By painting a scene or picture, an artist permits society to draw conclusions about the horrors of slavery without saying a word. For example, The Slave Ship by J. M. W. Turner shows shackled slaves shoved overboard during a storm. Because the slave trade was immensely profitable and human cargo was insured, slave ship owners collected money if slaves died from drowning. Rather than take a loss, sick and dead slaves were thrown into the sea to be devoured by denizens of the deep.