The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America

words removed
125,927
marks left
46,858
words a sentence
8.2
most used mark
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Its punctuation fingerprint: each mark's share, on the same scale as every book on the shelf.

Its punctuation twin, the closest fingerprint on the shelf: The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 6 (of 6), the Elder Pliny. More twins

W. E. B. Du Bois on the shelf

3 books by W. E. B. Du Bois are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 3rd closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for John Dewey. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, W. E. B. Du Bois's punctuation is closest to George Washington Williams's.

W. E. B. Du Bois's average fingerprint

W. E. B. Du Bois on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookW. E. B. Du Bois's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons12.010.17.2
Commas124.692.676.6
Colons6.73.81.6
Exclamation marks0.02.12.8
Question marks0.62.93.7
Words per sentence8.217.717.0
Dialogue29%14%22%

Every mark in reading order, left to right, top to bottom. Sentence endings are pink.

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