It takes the average reader 1 hour and 10 minutes to read Harriet Jacobs by Lydia R. Diamond
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Throughout her meteoric rise into the upper ranks of young playwrights, Lydia R. Diamond has boldly challenged assumptions about African American culture. In Harriet Jacobs, she turns one of the greatest of American slave narratives, Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, into a penetrating, rousing work of theater. Jacobs’ book—which was published in 1861 and only partially serialized in Horace Greely’s New York Tribune before it was deemed too graphic—chillingly exposed the sexual harassment and abuse of slave girls and women at the hands of their masters. Harriet Jabobs: A Play...
Harriet Jacobs by Lydia R. Diamond is 70 pages long, and a total of 17,500 words.
This makes it 24% the length of the average book. It also has 21% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 35 minutes to read Harriet Jacobs aloud.
Harriet Jacobs is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
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