It takes the average reader 1 hour and 29 minutes to read Underground Railroad by Larry Gara
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Includes essays by 3 historians that describe the Underground Railroad (UR), the name given to the many ways that blacks took to escape slavery in the southern U.S. before the Civil War. The UR story is like nothing else in American history: a secret enterprise that today is famous, an association many claim but few can document, an illegal activity now regarded as noble, a network that was neither underground nor a railroad, yet a system that operated through the committed acts of courage and kindness of individuals unknown to each other. Brings together court records, buildings, letters,...
Underground Railroad by Larry Gara is 87 pages long, and a total of 22,359 words.
This makes it 29% the length of the average book. It also has 27% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 2 minutes to read Underground Railroad aloud.
Underground Railroad is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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