Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.8
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
41841
Points per Word
0.000167
Page Count
208
Points per Page
0.033654
Description
This book is a biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrested at the instigation of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists and those determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts.