Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires audiobook runs 6.9 hours unabridged, narrated by Ron Butler (about 4.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 6.9 hours of listening.
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| 30 min / day | 14 days |
| 1 hour / day | 7 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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What our data says
- At 6.9 hours, it is shorter than 65% of the 5,303 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Ron Butler
Ron Butler narrates 150 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,261 hours in all.
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
766 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires is an audiobook by Shomari Wills: a 6.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Ron Butler, released January 30, 2018, on the The Americas and Social Science shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 6.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Ron Butler
- Released
- January 30, 2018
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- The Americas, Social Science
- ISBN
- 9780062797551
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How long is the Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires audiobook?
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires runs 6.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.6 hours.
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Who narrates Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires?
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires is narrated by Ron Butler.