In an effort to escape from slavery, for seven years, Harriet Jacobs, a slave in North Carolina, lived in a small crawl space above the storage room in her grandmother's house. She suffered many years with limited light, little air, and not much room to move.
What led her to confine herself to a crawl space provides a notion of the desperation that she felt. Until she was twelve she had a kind mistress, but upon her death she was bequeathed to the young Norcom daughter. At the Norcom home, Jacobs was subjected to sexual advances from Dr. Norcom (named Dr. Flint in her autobiography) who wanted to make her his concubine. In an attempt to thwart his plans, Jacobs became pregnant by a white unmarried lawyer.
It was after she had two childr
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