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Seven Years in a Crawlspace: Harriet Jacobs’s Escape from Edenton

To stay near her children and flee the man who claimed to own her, Harriet Jacobs hid in a space too low to stand in. She stayed nearly seven years.

Harriet Jacobs hid for nearly seven years in a space above a shed in Edenton, N.C., then wrote one of the most important slave narratives by a woman.