Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.5
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
22342
Points per Word
0.000179
Page Count
112
Points per Page
0.035714
Series
African-American Experience
Description
This collection of narratives of former women slaves describing the suffering they endured, including rape and abuse, the separation from their husbands, and most dreadful of all, the theft of their children who were sold to other slave masters.