Feedback January 19th

We can trust To Be A Slave because, there are many people giving their own experiences on slavery and their all similar. Another reason that it could be trusted is that, the experiences all lead up to the same ending, that slavery was bad, however the book is biased. The book has no show on how people who thought it was a good thing were thinking, also it shows no side of the story on how the book benefited some people including some of the slaves. A second reason that it could be untrustworthy is the book could be untrustworthy because they could be made up experiences because some of the experiences are anonymous. ( P.G. 51 Lester) It also could be untrustworthy because the book was written after slavery, Julius Lester wasn’t actually alive during slavery time, his information was told to him or taught to him, he wasn’t there to see it at first hand, meaning that his information might have been biased in the first place, that is unfair because you need to look at both sides of the story before making a decision.

I am still not sure if I trust of don’t trust the book but more signs point at not.


Lester, Julius. To Be a Slave. New York: Dell, 1971.