Abolitionist Harriet Jacobs publishes account of slave experiences

Abolitionist Harriet Jacobs published her experiences as a slave in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl under the pen name Linda Brent. In the book, she recounted how she spent seven years hiding in a dark crawl space that measured approximately nine feet long and seven feet wide. The crawl space had a sloping ceiling that was three feet high at its largest end.