Androcles and the Lion (film) a wounded paw. Androcles sees that the cause is a large thorn embedded in its paw, which he draws out while talking baby language to the lion. His wife had fled, and Androcles is next seen in a procession of Christian prisoners on their way to the Colosseum in Rome. They are joined by the fierce convert Ferrovius who subsequently provides much of the comic entertainment in his struggle to keep his nature in check. Love interest is also introduced by the growing attraction of the Captain to the noble-born convert Lavinia. Eventually the party is sent into the arena
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