Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.5
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
28915
Points per Word
0.000173
Series
American Troublemakers
Description
In 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in an attempt to invoke rebellion among the slaves. He believed that the oppressive practice of slavery undermined the American Constitution.