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By Jessica McElrath, About.com Guide to African-American History since 2000

Escape From Slavery

Thursday December 13, 2007
In an effort to escape from slavery, Harriet Jacobs, a slave in North Carolina, lived in a small crawl space above the storage room in her grandmother's house for seven years. Find out what led her to confine herself to this tiny crawl space.

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