How Long to Read Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind

How Long Does it Take to Read Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 1 minute to read Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind by Todd Mildfelt

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A controversial character largely known (as depicted in the movie Glory) as a Union colonel who led Black soldiers in the Civil War, James Montgomery (1814–71) waged a far more personal and radical war against slavery than popular history suggests. It is the true story of this militant abolitionist that Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer tell in Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind, summoning a life fiercely lived in struggle against the expansion of slavery into the West and during the Civil War. This book follows a harrowing path through the turbulent world of the 1850s and 1860s as Montgomery, with the fervor of an Old Testament prophet, inflicts destructive retribution on Southern slaveholders wherever he finds them, crossing paths with notable abolitionists John Brown and Harriet Tubman along the way. During the tumultuous years of “Bleeding Kansas,” he became a guerilla chieftain of the antislavery vigilantes known as Jayhawkers. When the war broke out in 1861, Montgomery led a regiment of white troops who helped hundreds of enslaved people in Missouri reach freedom in Kansas. Drawing on regimental records in the National Archives, the authors provide new insights into the experiences of African American men who served in Montgomery’s next regiment, the Thirty-Fourth United States Colored Troops (formerly Second South Carolina Infantry). Montgomery helped enslaved men and women escape via one of the least-explored underground railways in the nation, from Arkansas and Missouri through Kansas and Nebraska. With support of abolitionists in Massachusetts, he spearheaded resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act in Kansas. And, when war came, he led Black soldiers in striking at the very heart of the Confederacy. His full story thus illuminates the actions of both militant abolitionists and the enslaved people fighting to destroy the peculiar institution.

How long is Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind?

Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind by Todd Mildfelt is 408 pages long, and a total of 105,264 words.

This makes it 138% the length of the average book. It also has 129% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 35 minutes to read Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind aloud.

What Reading Level is Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind?

Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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