It takes the average reader 8 hours and 36 minutes to read The Ledger and the Chain by Joshua D. Rothman
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing forgotten story of America's internal slave trade—and its role in the making of America. Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery. But these men—who trafficked and sold over half a million enslaved people from the Upper South to the Deep South—were essential to slavery's expansion and fueled the growth and prosperity of the United States. In The Ledger and the Chain, acclaimed historian Joshua D. Rothman recounts the shocking story of the domestic slave trade by tracing the lives and careers of Isaac Franklin,...
The Ledger and the Chain by Joshua D. Rothman is 512 pages long, and a total of 129,024 words.
This makes it 173% the length of the average book. It also has 158% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 45 minutes to read The Ledger and the Chain aloud.
The Ledger and the Chain is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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