Androcles in the Louvre and showed Androcles tending the lion's paw. In the 19th century Androcles became a subject for French table ornaments. One from 1820 shows him sword in hand in the arena as the lion crouches at his feet, while another from 1825 has him tending the injured paw. About 1898, Jean-Léon Gérôme, who was soon to paint that scene too, produced a sculpture of Androcles leading the lion about on his tour of the Roman taverns. Titled "Le Mendiant" (the beggar), it is made of bronze gilt and shows the former slave standing with one hand on the
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" addressed some issues earlier raised in works by white abolitionists, most notably Harriet Beecher Stowe in her novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852), who had artfully combined the genres of slave narratives and sentimental novels. Stowe based her novel on several slave narratives. While Stowe wrote about characters who struggle through lives of slavery, Jacobs's work presents an authentic account of one black woman's girlhood and adolescence navigating the complex terrain of male-chauvinist slave-based, white-supremacist civilization. Stowe explores the far-reaching influence of chattel slavery, saying that everyone in the United States was implicated