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Diane Rapaport
historian, lawyer
Diane Rapaport is a former trial lawyer and is now a historical consultant, award winning author, and public speaker. She specializes in court records and other historical resources of New England, and her current research focuses on African-Americans and Native Americans in the colonial period. Rapaport is the author of The Naked Quaker: True Crimes and Controversies from the Courts of Colonial New England and New England Court Records: A Research Guide for Genealogists and Historians.