Androcles Classical accounts. Agostino Veneziano depicts the slave Androcles being freed by the Emperor in a work from 1516-17 now in the LACMA collection. There is also an early pen and wash drawing by Baldassare Peruzzi dating from the 1530s in the Hermitage Museum. Dependent on the account by Aulus Gellius, it depicts Androcles walking through a doorway with the lion on a lead at his heel. Other artists have preferred the scene of Androcles pulling the thorn from the lion's paw, as in Bernhard Rode's print of 1784. A later American example is Walter Inglis Anderson's block print scroll of
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