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How long does it take to read Slaves Without Masters?

The Free Negro in the Antebellum South

Ira Berlin

Slaves Without Masters by Ira Berlin takes about 7 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 7 hours 45 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1974. 423 pages, about 116,325 words.

16 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 12 hours 56 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 7 hours 45 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 51 minutes

The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Describes the lives and socio-cultural patterns of free blacks in antebellum South and their interaction with whites as determined largely by white attitudes, institutions, and patterns of thought.

Subjects: African Americans, History, Afro-Americans, Freedmen, Freed persons, African americans, history

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