Rachel of Kittery, Maine

Biography

Rachel of Kittery, Maine (died 1695) was a slave in what is now the U.S. state of Maine who was murdered by her owner, Nathaniel Keen, who was subsequently put on trial for murder by the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The trial established court precedent in the New England colonies for how juries ruled on murder cases that involved an slave-owner murdering a slave. The only documentation that she existed is several paragraphs in the Province and Court Records of Maine.

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