How long does it take to read Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery?
William Craft, Ellen Craft
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery by William Craft, Ellen Craft takes about 1 hour 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 26 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1860. 78 pages, about 21,450 words.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 54 minutes |
The page count is the median across 72 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom details the escape of Ellen and William Craft from slavery in Georgia in the United States. Well publicized at the time, the married couple became celebrities in the abolitionist struggle. Their daring and risky plan meant passing the light-skinned Ellen off as a white male traveling with 'his' slave, William, as no woman would have traveled alone with a slave at the time. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom gives a unique historical opportunity to witness a first hand account of notions of race, gender and class as they stood in a nineteenth century society which treated them as fixed and defining.
Subjects: African americans, biography, Fugitive slaves, united states, Enslaved persons' writings, Fugitive slaves, Nonfiction, Slaves
