When he found and confronted the owner of the replaced wallet, the man at first denied ownership but eventually admitted that he was pickpocketed by Jones as well.

[5] On February 15, 1846, the New York Herald reported that Sewally, also referring to her as "Beefsteak Pete", had been freed from Blackwells Island after being imprisoned for six months for "playing up his old game [and] sailing along the street in the full rig of a female.

[4] While heavily mocked at the time, Sewally has been celebrated by modern historians for sharing her experience as a gender-variant black person to the prominently white audience of the court.

In his book The Amalgamation Waltz, Tavia Nyong'o states that Sewally "transformed shame and stigma not by transcending them or repressing them but by employing them as resources in the production of new modes of meaning and being".

[7] Artist Arthur Jafa featured a re-imagining of what Sewally would have looked like in a self-portrait photograph titled La Scala in his art showcase, A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions.

[2] The Brooklyn Museum commissioned filmmaker Tourmaline to create a short film named Salacia focusing on the life of Sewally.

[3][9] Jonathan Ned Katz, in his book Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality, says Sewally grew up with little education, was illiterate, and signed statements with an X.

The antiquated term amalgamation was used by the press to indicate that customers of various races were served, which was not the norm, less than ten years after slavery had been abolished.