What is the full title of Turner's painting commonly known as 'The Slave Ship'?

The full title of Turner’s painting commonly known as “The Slave Ship” is “Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhoon coming on.”

J. M. W. Turner exhibited the oil painting at the Royal Academy in 1840. Its dramatic waves, fiery sky and barely visible ship turn a maritime scene into an indictment of the slave trade. Turner may have been responding to the 1781 Zong massacre, when enslaved people were thrown overboard so the ship’s owners could claim insurance.

The title is sometimes printed with the period spelling “Typhon” rather than “Typhoon,” and capitalization varies between sources. Those are spelling and editorial variants, not different paintings. “The Slave Ship” is the familiar shortened title, while the longer title identifies the scene’s violence and approaching storm.

The painting is now in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. It is often discussed as both a landmark of Romantic marine painting and a work whose beauty creates an uneasy contrast with its subject: human beings treated as disposable cargo.