Keywords: Opinion of the Supreme Court in United States v. the Amistad - NARA - 301672.jpg Scope and content Senior Justice Joseph Story wrote and read the decision of the Court The Supreme Court ruled that the Africans onboard the 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 General notes Appellate Case Files box 230 Exhibit no 624 0198 Exhibit History American Originals December 1997 - June 1998 National Archives Rotunda Washington DC Exhibit No 624 0198 The Rights of All April 1987 - July 1987 Schomburg Center New York NY Exhibit No 1040 0004 301672 Local identifier Supreme Court of the United States 02/02/1790 - Archives I Reference Section Textual Archives Services Division NWCT1R National Archives Building 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington DC 20408 1841-03-09 Record group Record Group 267 Records of the Supreme Court of the United States 1772 - 2007 Record group ARC 594 Appellate Jurisdiction Case Files compiled 1792 - 2006 Series ARC 301668 File unit United States Appellants v The Libellants and Claimants of the Schooner Amistad her tackle apparel and furniture together with her cargo and the Africans mentioned and described in the several libels and claims Appellees 1839 - 1841 File unit ARC 561022 Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWCTB-267-PI139E21-2161 OPINION <br /> NAIL Control Number NWDT1-267-PI139E21-2161 OPINION Other versions <gallery> File Opinion_of_the_Supreme_Court_in_United_States_v _the_Amistad_-_NARA_-_301672 tif tif </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov 1841 in the United States Amistad prisoners Supreme Court of the United States cases |