The Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story runs 9.4 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Fran L. Washington (about 6.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 9.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 19 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 9.4 hours, it runs longer than 67% of the 31,282 Biography & Memoir audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Fran L. Washington
Fran L. Washington narrates 4 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 50 hours in all.
About as long, on the Biography & Memoir shelf
5,216 Biography & Memoir audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story is an audiobook by Yvonne S. Thornton, M.D. and Jo Coudert: a 9.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Fran L. Washington, released March 28, 2008, on the Biography & Memoir shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Fran L. Washington
- Released
- March 28, 2008
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Biography & Memoir
- ISBN
- 9781423353898
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story as an audiobook?
The Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story runs 9.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.2 hours.
Is The Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story?
The Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story is narrated by Fran L. Washington.