'Can You Trust the To Be A Slave?'

Julius Lester, an African American who had had a high degree in education wrote the book To Be A Slave. Lester received a B.A. in English from Fisk University in 1960. Also, he had a talk radio show on WBAI FM from 1966-1973, hosted a television talk show on WNET from 1969-1971. Lester had written 43 books, and over the years, he had received the Newberry Honor Medal, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, National Book Award Finalist, National Jewish Book Award Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, Boston Globe, Horn Book Award, Coretta Scott King Award. Numerous titles have also appeared on the New York Times Outstanding Book list and American Library Association Notable Book list. He had also published over 200 hundred essays and reviews in such publications as the New York Times Booko Review, New York Times Op-Ed Page, Boston Globe, Village Voice, The New Republic, Forward, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. After teaching for two years at the New School for Social Research in New York (1968-70), he joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts in 1971 where he was a professor in the Judaic and Near Eastern Studies Department, and adjunct professor of History. And over there, he received numerous awards. After that, Lester For ten years he served as lay religious leader of Beth El Synagogue in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Therefore, the information in the book To Be A Slave can easily be trusted because Lester, who's formal education level is beyong common, would most likely provide accurate facts that have actually occured in the slavery ages. The majority of the information from this book come from the interviews of the survivors from the African slavery ages. Therefore, you should easily conclude that they shhould be trusted.