How Long to Read Travel Writing and Atrocities

How Long Does it Take to Read Travel Writing and Atrocities?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 50 minutes to read Travel Writing and Atrocities by Robert M. Burroughs

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

Description

This book examines eyewitness travel reports of atrocities committed in European-funded slave regimes in the Congo Free State, Portuguese West Africa, and the Putumayo district of the Amazon rainforest during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. During this time, British explorers, missionaries, consuls, journalists, soldiers, and traders produced evidence of misrule in the Congo, Angola, and the Putumayo, which they described their travel and witnessing of colonial violence in travelogues, ethnographic monographs, consular reports, diaries and letters, sketches, photography, and more. As well as bringing home to readers ongoing brutalities, eyewitness narratives contributed to debates on humanitarianism, trade, colonialism, and race and racial prejudice in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. In particular, whereas earlier antislavery travelers had tended to promote British imperial expansion as a remedy to slavery, travel texts produced for the three major humanitarian campaigns of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century expressed — and, indeed, gave rise to — changes in the perception of Britain as a nation for whom the protection of Africans remained paramount. Burroughs's study charts the emergence of a subversive eyewitness response in travel writing, which implicated Britons and British industries in the continuing existence of slave labor in regions formally ruled by other nations.

How long is Travel Writing and Atrocities?

Travel Writing and Atrocities by Robert M. Burroughs is 230 pages long, and a total of 57,500 words.

This makes it 78% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Travel Writing and Atrocities Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 14 minutes to read Travel Writing and Atrocities aloud.

What Reading Level is Travel Writing and Atrocities?

Travel Writing and Atrocities 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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