How Long to Read Eighty-eight Years

How Long Does it Take to Read Eighty-eight Years?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 3 minutes to read Eighty-eight Years by Patrick Rael

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

Description

Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a “house divided against itself,” as Abraham Lincoln put it? The decline of slavery throughout the Atlantic world was a protracted affair, says Patrick Rael, but no other nation endured anything like the United States. Here the process took from 1777, when Vermont wrote slavery out of its state constitution, to 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery nationwide. Rael immerses readers in the mix of social, geographic, economic, and political factors that shaped this unique American experience. He not only takes a far longer view of slavery's demise than do those who date it to the rise of abolitionism in 1831, he also places it in a broader Atlantic context. We see how slavery ended variously by consent or force across time and place and how views on slavery evolved differently between the centers of European power and their colonial peripheries—some of which would become power centers themselves. Rael shows how African Americans played the central role in ending slavery in the United States. Fueled by new Revolutionary ideals of self-rule and universal equality—and on their own or alongside abolitionists—both slaves and free blacks slowly turned American opinion against the slave interests in the South. Secession followed, and then began the national bloodbath that would demand slavery's complete destruction.

How long is Eighty-eight Years?

Eighty-eight Years by Patrick Rael is 415 pages long, and a total of 105,825 words.

This makes it 140% the length of the average book. It also has 129% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Eighty-eight Years Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 38 minutes to read Eighty-eight Years aloud.

What Reading Level is Eighty-eight Years?

Eighty-eight Years 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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