About This Book
"In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith."--
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Reading Time Estimates
4h 41m
slow reader
180 WPM
3h 22m
average reader
250 WPM
2h 25m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 50,600 words📅 7 days at 30 min/day
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Reading time
3 h 22 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
3 h 45 min
at 1.5x narration speed
Audio 1x
5 h 37 min
Audio 2x
2 h 49 min
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- 📅7 days reading 30 min/day
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