The Antelope
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In The Antelope (1825), Chief Justice John Marshall held in favor of slaveowners, as he had repeatedly done, by ruling for the U.S. Supreme Court that:ws, that a foreign vessel engaged in the African slave trade, captured on the
| “ | It follows, that a foreign vessel engaged in the African slave trade, captured on the high seas in time of peace, by an American cruiser, and brought in for adjudication, would be restored. | ” |
The Antelope, 23 U.S. (10 Wheat.) 66, 123 (1825).
In so ruling, Chief Justice Marshall overturned Justice Joseph Story’s holding in Le Jeune Eugenie (1822), which had established that engaging in the slave trade was piracy and thereby violated the law of nations.[1]
The result of Chief Justice Marshall's ruling in The Antelope was the continued enslavement of dozens of African American captives on the vessels.