How Long to Read In the Shadow of the Gallows

How Long Does it Take to Read In the Shadow of the Gallows?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 49 minutes to read In the Shadow of the Gallows by Jeannine Marie DeLombard

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

Description

From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more revealing perspectives of publicity and personhood. When the Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that African Americans have "no rights which the white man was bound to respect," it overlooked the right to due process, which ensured that black offenders—even slaves—appeared as persons in the eyes of the law. In the familiar account of African Americans' historical shift "from plantation to prison," we have forgotten how, for a century before the Civil War, state punishment affirmed black political membership in the breach, while a thriving popular crime literature provided early America's best-known models of individual black selfhood. Before there was the slave narrative, there was the criminal confession. Placing the black condemned at the forefront of the African American canon allows us to see how a later generation of enslaved activists—most notably, Frederick Douglass—could marshal the public presence and civic authority necessary to fashion themselves as eligible citizens. At the same time, in an era when abolitionists were charging Americans with the national crime of "manstealing," a racialized sense of culpability became equally central to white civic identity. What, for African Americans, is the legacy of a citizenship grounded in culpable personhood? For white Americans, must membership in a nation built on race slavery always betoken guilt? In the Shadow of the Gallows reads classics by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, George Lippard, and Edward Everett Hale alongside execution sermons, criminal confessions, trial transcripts, philosophical treatises, and political polemics to address fundamental questions about race, responsibility, and American civic belonging.

How long is In the Shadow of the Gallows?

In the Shadow of the Gallows by Jeannine Marie DeLombard is 457 pages long, and a total of 117,449 words.

This makes it 154% the length of the average book. It also has 144% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read In the Shadow of the Gallows Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 41 minutes to read In the Shadow of the Gallows aloud.

What Reading Level is In the Shadow of the Gallows?

In the Shadow of the Gallows 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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