Androcles and the Lion (play) run from his Roman persecutors. While hiding in the forest he comes upon a wild lion who approaches him with a wounded paw. His wife runs off. Androcles sees that the cause of the animal's distress is a large thorn embedded in its paw, which he draws out while soothing the lion in baby language. Androcles is captured and is sent to the Colosseum to be executed with other Christians in gladiatorial combat. They are joined by a new Christian convert called Ferrovius, who struggles to reconcile his Christian principles with his violent inclinations. The Roman captain guarding them is
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