How long does it take to read Without Sanctuary?
James Allen, Hilton Als, Jon Lewis, Leon F. Litwack
Without Sanctuary by James Allen, Hilton Als, Jon Lewis, Leon F. Litwack takes about 3 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 50 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2000. 209 pages, about 57,475 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Tuskegee Institute records the lynching of 3,436 blacks between 1882 and 1950. This is probably a small percentage of these murders, which were seldom reported, and led to the creation of the NAACP in 1909, an organization dedicated to passing federal anti-lynching laws. Through all this terror and carnage someone-many times a professional photographer-carried a camera and took pictures of the events. These lynching photographs were often made into postcards and sold as souvenirs to the crowds in attendance. These images are some of photography's most brutal, surviving to this day so that we may now look back on the terrorism unleashed on America's African-American community and perhaps know our history and ourselves better. The almost one hundred images reproduced here are a testament to the camera's ability to make us remember what we often choose to forget.
Subjects: Lynching, Racism, Pictorial works, Race relations, Postcards, African Americans
