How long does it take to read The Book of Negroes?
Lawrence Hill
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill takes about 9 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours
A week or two of reading
First published 2007. 491 pages, about 135,025 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 38 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Aminata Diallo is kidnapped from Africa as a child and sold as a slave in South Carolina. Fleeing to Canada after the Revolutionary War, she escapes to attempt a new life in freedom.
Subjects: Fiction, African American loyalists, Black loyalists, Slaves, Antislavery movements, History
