It takes the average reader 4 hours and 34 minutes to read To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner by Carole Emberton
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The extraordinary life of Priscilla Joyner and her quest—along with other formerly enslaved people—to define freedom after the Civil War. Priscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858 North Carolina and came of age at the dawn of emancipation. Raised by a white slaveholding woman, Joyner never knew the truth about her parentage. She grew up isolated and unsure of who she was and where she belonged—feelings that no emancipation proclamation could assuage. Her life story—candidly recounted in an oral history for the Federal Writers’ Project—captures the intimate nature of freedom....
To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner by Carole Emberton is 272 pages long, and a total of 68,544 words.
This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 14 minutes to read To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner aloud.
To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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