How Long to Read Dibia’s World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation

How Long Does it Take to Read Dibia’s World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read Dibia’s World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation by William Jennings

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

Description

Dibia was educated in Africa, stolen across the sea and sold into slavery. He spent the rest of his life on a sugar plantation, where he worked with Agoüya, drank Aboré’s rum, married Izabelle and had a son named Paul. This book tells the story of the community he lived in with a hundred others in a colonial outpost of the Caribbean. It depicts the everyday life of enslaved Africans and Native Americans in remarkable detail, showing their names, relationships, skills, health and interactions, as they contended with and resisted their enslavement. Most studies of plantation life examine well-established colonies in the century before abolition. This work provides a counterpoint by depicting the founding population of an African-American community in the early years of the industrial sugar plantation complex. Drawing on a planter’s manuscript, shipping records, missionary accounts and seventeenth-century scraps of paper, Dibia’s World will appeal to specialists as well as general readers interested in the early Atlantic world, Creole societies, slavery and African-American history.

How long is Dibia’s World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation?

Dibia’s World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation by William Jennings is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.

This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Dibia’s World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read Dibia’s World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation aloud.

What Reading Level is Dibia’s World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation?

Dibia’s World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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