Shackles from the Deep: Tracing the Path of a Sunken Slave Ship, a Bitter Past, and a Rich Legacy
Author: Cottman, Michael H.
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.5
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
17708
Points per Word
0.000169
Page Count
127
Points per Page
0.023622
Description
Lime-encrusted shackles on the seafloor in the remains of a ship land Michael Cottman, a journalist and scuba diver, in an amazing journey from foundries and tombs in England to slave ports of West Africa to present-day Caribbean plantations.