How Long to Read The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction

How Long Does it Take to Read The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction by Daniel Brook

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

Description

A technicolor history of the first civil rights movement and its collapse into black and white. In The Accident of Color, Daniel Brook journeys to nineteenth-century New Orleans and Charleston and introduces us to cosmopolitan residents who elude the racial categories the rest of America takes for granted. Before the Civil War, these free, openly mixed-race urbanites enjoyed some rights of citizenship and the privileges of wealth and social status. But after Emancipation, as former slaves move to assert their rights, the black-white binary that rules the rest of the nation begins to intrude....

How long is The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction?

The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction by Daniel Brook is 336 pages long, and a total of 86,016 words.

This makes it 113% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction aloud.

What Reading Level is The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction?

The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction 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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