GEORGIA AUTHOR JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS’ “Uncle Remus” stories were first published in 1880. These interpretations of the African folk tales Harris heard told by slaves are narrated by the fictional Uncle ...
Like a lot of people in a lot of families, playwright Aaron Coleman grew up hearing the stories of Brer Rabbit, the cunning character from African folklore who outsmarted his animal adversaries. These ...
Adapted from: Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings. Brer Rabbit, he's a good fisherman -- The wonderful tar-baby story -- How Brer Weasel was caught -- Brer Rabbit and the mosquitoes -- Brer ...
Why the cricket has elbows on his legs -- Why the earth is mostly water -- The origin of the ocean -- Brer Rabbit and Miss Nancy -- The old king and the new king -- Brer Bear comes to the community -- ...
"But now people know who we are." Inside the house is a charming collection of Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit memorabilia nestled among the original furniture and rugs that were in the house when Harris ...
A: Uncle Remus is the fictional narrator of the Brer Rabbit folktales, created in the late 1800s by a White man named Joel Chandler Harris. In the later part of the 1800s and the first half of the ...