Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
5.3
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
2199
Points per Word
0.000227
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.010417
Series
Picture the American Past
Description
This book explains how the nearly four million slaves and nearly half a million free blacks gained freedom and basic rights as citizens, following Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.