The Court ruled that the Mende captives had been illegally kidnapped and enslaved and could not be returned to Spanish claimants. The judgment recognized their right to resist unlawful captivity, though it did not challenge slavery within the United States. The outcome followed the captives’ own resistance and years of organizing by Black and white abolitionists.
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What did the US Supreme Court decide in the Amistad case?
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The Court ruled the captives were free because they had been illegally enslaved.
The Amistad ruling abolished slavery throughout the United States.
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It declared the illegally kidnapped captives free, without ending US slavery.