Uncle Remus

Uncle Remus is a fictional character created by American author Joel Chandler Harris. Harris, a journalist, became familiar with the lore and dialects of enslaved Africans and used this knowledge to create Uncle Remus, a wise and genial old Black man. In Harris's stories, Uncle Remus tells tales to the plantation owner's son, featuring animal characters like Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and Brer Bear. These stories, first published in Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings (1880), are rooted in African American folktales and oral traditions, often using animals to represent human struggles and desires, particularly the theme of outsmarting stronger adversaries.12