The complete online text of Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings by Joel Chandler Harris.

American writer Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) used folklore, fiction, dialect, and other devices of local color to picture both black and white Georgians under slavery and Reconstruction. Joel Chandler Harris was born in Eatonton, Ga., the illegitimat...

In 1882, according to Mark Twain, a group of children who were invited to the New Orleans home of George Washington Cable to meet the newly famous author of "Brer Rabbit and the Tar-Baby" were doubly disappointed. Not only was Joel Chandler Harris too sh...

Joel Chandler Harris , better known today as the talented Georgian folklorist and creator of Uncle Remus who recounted numerous tales of plantation life, was first and foremost a newspaper journalist. It has not been unusual for literary figures to begin...

You see, my grandmother explained to me that when a black woman went into a white family's house as the cook and the baby sitter, this is the role of the mother.... [T]hat child is nurtured by whoever that person is, but somewhere...

You see, my grandmother explained to me that when a black woman went into a white family's house as the cook and the baby sitter, this is the role of the mother. . . . [T ]hat child is nurtured by whoever that person...