It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read In Search of the Promised Land by John Hope Franklin
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The matriarch of a remarkable African American family, Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. In Search of the Promised Land offers a vivid portrait of the extended Thomas-Rapier family and of slave life before the Civil War. Based on personal letters and an autobiography by one of Thomas' sons, this remarkable piece of detective work follows the family as they walk the boundary between slave and free, traveling across the country in search of a "promised land" where...
In Search of the Promised Land by John Hope Franklin is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.
This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read In Search of the Promised Land aloud.
In Search of the Promised Land is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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