Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.4
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
6543
Points per Word
0.000153
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.020833
Description
Hopeful African Americans began the long journey to build their lives from scratch as U.S. law declared all slaves free in 1865, to which many whites fought bitterly against change.