Racial undertones in Brer Rabbit
Among the finest of America's humorists and Southern local-color writers, Joel Chandler Harris, b. Eatonton, Ga., Dec. 9, 1848, d. July 3, 1908, did much to popularize American Negro plantation culture. His most memorable creation, "Negro Folklore: The Story of Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Fox, as Told by Uncle Remus," first appeared in the Atlanta Constitution on July 20, 1879. The popularity of the story led him to publish the collection Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings (1880). In the 1880s Harris began to publish whimsical, imaginative stories that accurately reproduced local black folktales in authentic language. The stories centered on the character of Uncle Remus, a former slave who is the servant of a Southern family. To entertain the young master, Uncle Remus tells him stories about animals who act like humans, such as Brer Rabbit,
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Approximate Word count = 564
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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