Buried Lives: The Enslaved People of George Washington's Mount Vernon
Author: McClafferty, Carla Killough
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
8.0
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
40817
Points per Word
0.000171
Page Count
152
Points per Page
0.046053
Description
When he was eleven years old, George Washington inherited ten human beings. His own life has been well chronicled, but the lives of the people he owned, the people who supported his plantation and were buried in unmarked graves there, have not.