Editing United States v. The Amistad (section)

===In popular culture===
In 1998, a memorial was installed at the Montauk Point Lighthouse to commemorate the Amistad.[[File:Montauk Point Amistad Memorial; May 11 2008.JPG|right|thumb|Amistad memorial at [[Montauk Point Lighthouse]] on [[Long Island]].]] On August 26, 2023, the Montauk Historical Society, together with the Eastville Community Historical Society and the Southampton African-American Museum, erected a historic marker near Culloden Point in Montauk where the Amistad was anchored in 1839. 
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The revolt aboard ''La Amistad,'' the background of the slave trade and its subsequent trial is retold in a celebrated<ref>{{cite book|last=Bloom|first=Harold|title=Poets and Poems|year=2005|publisher=Chelsea House Publishers|location=New York|isbn=0791082253|pages=348–351|author-link=Harold Bloom|quote=All this is merely preamble to a rather rapid survey of a few of Hayden's superb sequences, of which ''Middle Passage'' is the most famous.}}</ref> poem by [[Robert Hayden]] entitled "[[Middle Passage (poem)|Middle Passage]]", first published in 1962. Howard Jones published ''[[Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy]]'' in 1987.

A movie, ''[[Amistad (1997 film)|Amistad]]'' (1997), was based on the events of the revolt and court cases, and Howard Jones' 1987 book ''[[Mutiny on the Amistad]]''.

African-American artist [[Hale Woodruff]] painted murals portraying events related to the revolt on ''La Amistad'' in 1938, for [[Talladega College]] in Alabama. A statue of Cinqué was erected beside the City Hall building in [[New Haven, Connecticut]] in 1992.<ref>{{cite web |author=Ed Hamilton |title=Amistad Memorial |url=https://publicartarchive.org/art/Amistad-Memorial/b72a622b |website=Public Art Archive |access-date=19 June 2023}}</ref> There is an ''Amistad'' memorial at [[Montauk Point State Park]] on [[Long Island]].

In 2000, ''[[La Amistad#Replica|Freedom Schooner Amistad]]'', a [[ship replica]], was launched in [[Mystic, Connecticut]]. The Historical Society of [[Farmington, Connecticut]] offers walking tours of village houses that housed the Africans while funds were collected for their return home.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://farmingtonhistoricalsociety-ct.org/events/upcoming-events/|title=Farmington's Freedom Trail|website=Farmington Historical Society|language=en-US|access-date=2017-01-18}}</ref> The [[Amistad Research Center]] at [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans, Louisiana]], has numerous resources for research into slavery, abolition, and African Americans.

[[File:Opinion of the Supreme Court in United States v. the Amistad.gif|thumb|Senior Justice Joseph Story wrote and read the decision of the Court. The Supreme Court ruled that the Africans on board ''La Amistad'' were free individuals. Kidnapped and transported illegally, they had never been slaves. The decision affirmed that "... it was the ultimate right of all human beings in extreme cases to resist oppression and to apply force against ruinous injustice." The Court ordered the immediate release of the ''Amistad'' Africans.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://catalog.archives.gov/id/301672?q=supreme%20court|title = US National Archives Catalog}}</ref>]]