Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.8
Points
31.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
172332
Points per Word
0.00018
Page Count
505
Points per Page
0.061386
Description
The author, whose ancestors owned slaves in seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century South Carolina, describes life on the Ball plantations for the whites and African Americans and traces the lives of many of the slaves' descendants.