How long does it take to read Half Slave and Half Free?
Bruce C. Levine
Half Slave and Half Free by Bruce C. Levine takes about 5 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 21 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1991. 292 pages, about 80,300 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Half Slave and Half Free is a powerful treatment of the basic issues and social transformations that precipitated the Civil War. In a succinct, persuasive narrative, Bruce Levine succeeds in showing how a popular basis for the Civil War developed out of the far-reaching and divisive changes in American life after the incomplete Revolution of 1776--changes that stemmed from the development of two very distinct social systems, one based on slavery, the other on free labor, which eventually made sectional differences within the framework of the Union irreconcilable.
Subjects: Causes, History, Slavery, Working class, Working class, history, Working class, united states
