It takes the average reader 4 hours and 48 minutes to read A Weary Land by Kelly Houston Jones
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In the first book-length study of Arkansas slavery in more than sixty years, A Weary Land offers a glimpse of enslaved life on the South’s western margins, focusing on the intersections of land use and agriculture within the daily life and work of bonded Black Arkansans. As they cleared trees, cultivated crops, and tended livestock on the southern frontier, Arkansas’s enslaved farmers connected culture and nature, creating their own meanings of space, place, and freedom. Kelly Houston Jones analyzes how the arrival of enslaved men and women as an imprisoned workforce changed the meaning of...
A Weary Land by Kelly Houston Jones is 284 pages long, and a total of 72,136 words.
This makes it 96% the length of the average book. It also has 88% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 34 minutes to read A Weary Land aloud.
A Weary Land is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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