How long does it take to read Many Thousands Gone?
Many Thousands Gone by Ira Berlin takes about 9 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 16 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1998. 505 pages, about 138,875 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 26 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 47 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Today most Americans, black and white, identify slavery with cotton, the deep South, and the African-American church. But at the beginning of the nineteenth century, after almost two hundred years of African-American life in mainland North America, few slaves grew cotton, lived in the deep South, or embraced Christianity. Many Thousands Gone traces the evolution of black society from the first arrivals in the early seventeenth century through the Revolution. In telling their story, Ira Berlin, a leading historian of southern and African-American life, reintegrates slaves into the history of the American working class and into the tapestry of our nation. As the nature of the slaves' labor changed with place and time, so did the relationship between slave and master, and between slave and society. In this brilliant and vivid interpretation, Berlin demonstrates that the meaning of slavery and of race itself was continually renegotiated and redefined, as the nation lurched toward political and economic independence and grappled with the Enlightenment ideals that had inspired its birth.
Subjects: African Americans, History, Slavery, Social conditions, Politica e sociedade (escravidao), Noirs américains
