a
character in a
series of stories written by
American writer Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908). These stories
include Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings (1880) and The
Tar Baby Story and Other Rhymes by Uncle Remus (1904). The narrator of these stories, Uncle Remus, is a beloved aging black servant to the young white son of a Southern plantation owner. He entertains the child by
telling him traditional
animal fables, using dialect of the African-
American South of the 1800s. In the Uncle Remus stories, the
animal characters such as
Br'
er (
brother)
Rabbit,
Br'
er Fox and
Br'
er Bear, are endowed with human qualities and can talk like human beings. The stories depict Uncle Remus'
philosophies of the
world around him.
a
character in several books by Joel Chandler Harris. Uncle Remus is a former plantation slave who tells
animal tales to a little
boy.