in New Orleans I always dressed in this way —"Jones pled not guilty to the charge of grand larceny. She was sentenced to five years of imprisonment at Sing Sing. The trial was the focus of much sensational media attention, as media tended to report more on her attire than the crime she committed. A lithograph of Jones was drawn by H. R. Robinson, calling her "The Man-Monster". Later life and arrests On August 9, 1845, the Commercial Advertiser published a report about Jones, referring to her as "Beefsteak Pete", being arrested again. Jones got the nickname "Beefsteak Pete" from the fact that she wore a prosthetic vagina when engaging in sex with men to trick them into thinking she was anatomically female. On February 15, 1846, the New York Herald reported that Jones, 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." Legacy While heavily mocked at the time, Jones has been celebrated by modern historians for her actions in court of sharing her experience as a transgender black person to the prominently white audience of the court. In his book, The Amalgamation Waltz, Tavia Nyong'o stated that Jones "[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". The Museum of the City of New York has considered Jones to be "one of the first known gender variant/transgender people in New York history". Artist Arthur Jafa featured a re-imagining of what Jones would've looked like in a self-portrait photograph titled La Scala in his art showcase, A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions.The Brooklyn Museum commissioned filmmaker Tourmaline to create a short film named Salacia focusing on the life of Jones. The short was screened at the museum from May 3 to December 9, 2019. The short is currently screened by the Museum of Modern Art as part of their permanent collection. Jonathan Ned Katz, in his book Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality, says Jones grew up with little education, was illiterate, and signed statements with an X. According to Katz, contrast and scandal made Sewally/Jones so interesting for the press: during the day Peter Sewally reportedly dressed as a