Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.5
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1414
Points per Word
0.000354
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
In the 19th century, North Carolina slave George Moses Horton taught himself to read, earned money to purchase his time, though not his freedom, and became the first African American to be published in the South, protesting slavery in the form of verse.