Is it acceptable to use this as a source in a book I am writing?

Post date: 2019-04-16 06:07:00

I am writing a book, and there is a source I really, really, really want to use, but it seems to be impossible to verify its authenticity.

The source is an 18th-century memoir that makes some shocking revelations about British colonial policies.

Personally, having read through it, I don't see anything that is objectionable. I have read a lot about British colonial policies, and what is written in this book seems to correspond with British colonial policies in other regions of the world. Neither have I found anything that has seriously refuted the information this memoir contains, other than to call it 'conspiratorial' without any further elaboration.

That's the conundrum I am in: the credibility of the information in the memoir is questionable (although not in my personal opinion), since I haven't found any other independent source to support its claims, but then neither have I found a source that has demonstratively proven this memoir to be fake.

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