TY - JOUR
AU - Lustig, Mary Lou
AB - Book Reviews 841 between Equiano’s own claim and documents and buried in a carefully contrived controversy of Equiano’s identity. his master was instrumental in creating. Carretta rejects Equiano’s attestation while G. Ugo Nwokeji effectively upholding his master’s. Yet, Paschal University of California is no more trustworthy than Equiano. By Car- Berkeley, California retta’s account, Paschal’s keeping of his slave in naval vessels broke the code and convention of The Gardiners of Massachusetts: Provincial the British navy. His failure to register Equia- Ambition and the British-American Career. By no as his slave suggests a willingness to falsify T. A. Milford. (Durham: University of New the records. It was clearly not in Paschal’s inter- Hampshire Press, 2005. xiv, 306 pp. Cloth, est to register Equiano’s birthplace as “Africa”; $65.00, isbn 1-58465-503-8. Paper, $26.00, an African-born boy in his early teens in the isbn 1-58465-504-6.) eighteenth-century British navy could hardly be anything but a slave. Thus, Paschal had a e Th three Gardiners, grandfather, father, and motive to conceal Equiano’s African origin. son, considered in T. A. Milford’s The Gardin- Even though Carretta makes little of it, there ers of Massachusetts, were members of a new is ample evidence that Paschal used 
TI - The Gardiners of Massachusetts: Provincial Ambition and the British-American Career
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/4486432
DA - 2006-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-gardiners-of-massachusetts-provincial-ambition-and-the-british-rdDAKLzgy0
SP - 841
EP - 842
VL - 93
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
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