To Be A Slave- Can We Trust?

I think for the most part we can trust what Julius Lester is saying in To Be a Slave. I think that because he's using letters and stories directly from slaves. And also, since most of the accounts from the slaves are very similar, I also think most of it is true. Then again, we haven't heard the side of the story from the slave owners, but I don't think all the slaves came together.

After doing more research about Julius Lester, I am beginning to wonder how much you can trust him, as he is an African American and his ancestors were slaves. He may have used accounts of real slaves in his book, but he used maybe a hundred or two of the thousands of slaves there were.