The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" id="mwbg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Supreme Court of the United States">U.S. Supreme Court</a> rules in the <i id="mwbw"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._The_Amistad" id="mwcA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States v. The Amistad">United States v. The Amistad</a></i> case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery" id="mwcQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Slavery">slavery</a> illegally.<sup about="#mwt68" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_9#cite_note-12" id="mwcg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwcw">[12]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"><cite about="#mwt65" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFGold2006">Gold, Susan Dudley (2006). <span class="id-lock-registration" id="mwB4k" title="Free registration required"><a class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/unitedstatesvami0000gold" id="mwB4o" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB4s">United States V. Amistad: Slave Ship Mutiny</i></a></span>. Marshall Cavendish. p.<span id="mwB4w" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/unitedstatesvami0000gold/page/105" id="mwB40" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">105</a>. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB44" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB48" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-7614-2143-6" id="mwB5A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7614-2143-6"><bdi id="mwB5E">978-0-7614-2143-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt65" class="Z3988" id="mwB5I" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=United+States+V.+Amistad%3A+Slave+Ship+Mutiny&amp;rft.pages=105&amp;rft.pub=Marshall+Cavendish&amp;rft.date=2006&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-7614-2143-6&amp;rft.aulast=Gold&amp;rft.aufirst=Susan+Dudley&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Funitedstatesvami0000gold&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+9"></span></span>