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In 1880, Joel Chandler Harris, a moderate white Southern journalist, published a collection of black folktales, proverbs, songs, and character sketches based on stories he had heard as a child. In his introduction, Robert Hemenway discusses the book's enduring popularity, pointing out that the character of Uncle Remus, the docile and grandfatherly ex-slave storyteller, is a utopian figure-a literary creation by Harris that reassured white readers during the tense and tentative Reconstruction. By contrast, the feisty Brer Rabbit was a mainstay of black folklore long before Harris heard of his exploits. Brer Rabbit's cunning and revolutionary antics symbolically inverted the slave-master relationship and satisfied the deep human needs of a captive people... Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1848 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent the majority of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution. Harris led two professional lives: as the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris, he supported a vision of the New South with the editor Henry W. Grady (1880–1889), stressing regional and racial reconciliation after the Reconstruction era. As Joel Chandler Harris, fiction writer and folklorist, he wrote many 'Brer Rabbit' stories from the African-American oral tradition and helped to revolutionize literature in the process.... Arthur Burdett Frost (January 17, 1851 – June 22, 1928), was an American illustrator, graphic artist and comics writer. He was also well known as a painter. Frost's work is well known for its dynamic representation of motion and sequence. Frost is considered one of the great illustrators in the "Golden Age of American Illustration". Frost illustrated over 90 books and produced hundreds of paintings; in addition to his work in illustrations, he is renowned for realistic hunting and shooting prints....

Uncle Remus is a collection of animal stories, songs, and oral folklore, collected from Southern United States blacks. Many of the stories are didactic, much like those of Aesop's fables and the stories of Jean de La Fontaine. Uncle Remus is a kindly old former slave who serves as a storytelling device, passing on the folktales to children gathered around him. The stories are told in Harris's version of a Deep South slave dialect. The genre of stories is the trickster tale. At the time of Harris' publication, his work was praised for its ability to capture plantation negro dialect.

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PREFACE AND DEDICATIONTO THE NEW EDITIONTo Arthur Burdette Frost:My DEAR FROST: I am expected to suppl~.;' a prefacefor this new edition of nly £rst book-to advance frombehind the curtain, as it were, and make a fresh bowto the public that has dealt with Uncle Remus in sogentle and generous a fashion. For this event thelights are to be rekindled, and I am expected torespond in son1e fonnal way to an encore that marksthe fifteenth anniversary of the book. There havebeen other editions-how many I do not rememberbuttllis is to be an entirely new one, except as to thematter: new type, new pictures, and new binding.But, as frequently happens on such occasions, Iam at a loss for a word. I seem to see before me thesmiling faces of thousands of children-some youngand fresh, and SOlne wearing the friendly marks ofage, but. all children at heart-and not an unfriendlyface among them. And out of the confusion, andiii while I am trying hard to speak the righTable of Contents CONTENTS; LEGE~'"DS OF THE OLD PLANTATION; I-Uncle Remus initiates the Little Boy; II-The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story o; IlL-Why :Mr Possum loves Peace; IV-How Mr Rabbit was too sharp for Mr Fox; V-The Story of the Deluge, and how it came; about ; VI-Mr Rabbit grossly deceives Mr Fox; VII-Mr Fox is again victimized ; VIII-Mr Fox is "outdone" by Mr Buzzard; IX-Miss Cow falls a Victim to Mr Rabbit ; X-Mr Terrapin appears upon the Scene; XL-Mr Wolf makes a Failure; XIL-l1r Fox tackles Old Man Tarrypin ; XIII-The Awful Fate of Mr Wolf ; XIV-Mr Fox and the Deceitful Frogs ; XV-Mr Fox goes a-hunting, but Mr Rabbit bags; the Game; XVI-Old Mr Rabbit, he's a Cood Fishennan ; XVII-1lr Rabbit nibbles up the Butter; XVlII-ltlr Rabbit Bvds his Match at last ; XIX-The Fa

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