It takes the average reader 7 hours and 3 minutes to read The Kidnapped and the Ransomed by Kate E. R. Pickard
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Originally published in 1856, The Kidnapped and the Ransomed is the personal recollection of Peter Still, a black slave. He was stolen as a child from his home in New Jersey, yoked to servitude for more than forty years in Kentucky and Alabama, and finally freed with the help of a pair of Jewish brothers. It is the only nineteenth-century slave narrative to show the participation of the Jews in the antislavery movement before the Civil War. The reader follows Still through a succession of brutal masters, a clandestine courtship, marriage involving separation, births and deaths, the formation...
The Kidnapped and the Ransomed by Kate E. R. Pickard is 409 pages long, and a total of 105,931 words.
This makes it 138% the length of the average book. It also has 129% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 38 minutes to read The Kidnapped and the Ransomed aloud.
The Kidnapped and the Ransomed is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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