All of the following statements involving historian Marcus Rediker and his work concerning the history of slavery in America are accurate, EXCEPT
A. As an academic, he has correctly sought out and used primary sources and historical documents as the basis of work.
B. Technically, he is guilty of bias when discussing English colonial slavery but using West Indies sugar plantation statistics, which reveal clearly worse atrocities and statistics involving the sheer number of slaves, their treatment, and their deaths.
C. Because he is an expert, and too close to his subject, his findings and writings will be highly suspicious.  That is why your instructor included him as a topic in class lecture and discussion.
D. He challenged the accuracy that former slave ship captain John Newton came to his religious conversion and anti-slavery stance the way it is often depicted in the hymn Amazing Grace.
E. He wrote a book called The Slave Ship, which concerns the history of the Middle Passage experience of the 18th Century.
ANSWER: C