"What the Maryland professor unearthed among public British documents -- including a 1759 parish baptismal record and a 1773 ship's muster, both of which list Equiano's place of birth as South Carolina -- came as a shock. 'I was surprised. I was resistant, in fact,' Mr. Carretta says. 'The naval record was the real problem to me, because at that point he's free, he's an adult. The pursers went and simply asked, "What's your name? Where are you from?"'"
Jennifer Howard in The Chronicle of Higher Education explains the dispute over Olaudah Equiano's birthplace.
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