Living in the Walls for Freedom

This woman lived in a crawlspace smaller than a jail cell for years just to save her children.

Harriet Jacobs was being stalked by her own master who wouldn't take no for an answer.

When he threatened to sell her kids to break her spirit, she faked her escape to the North.

But she didn't actually leave. She climbed into a tiny, rat-infested attic

above her grandmother's shed. It was pitch black and scorching hot, but she drilled

a single hole in the wood just to watch her babies play outside. She literally lived

in the walls to protect her family from a monster.