It takes the average reader 5 hours and 59 minutes to read The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book by Jim Jordan
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Long-lost letters tell the story of an illegal slave shipment, a desperate Savannah businessman, and the lead-up to the Civil War. In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of U.S. law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The four hundred survivors of the Middle Passage were sold into bondage. This was the first successful documented slave landing in the United States in about four decades, and it shocked a nation already on the path to civil war. Nearly thirty years later, the North American Review published...
The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book by Jim Jordan is 354 pages long, and a total of 89,916 words.
This makes it 119% the length of the average book. It also has 110% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 11 minutes to read The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book aloud.
The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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