Brer Rabbit

Biografie

“My aunt Anna, my mother’s sister […] knew all the ‚Br’er Rabbit‘ stories, and I was brought up on them. One of my uncles, Robert Roosevelt, was much struck with them, and took them down from her dictation, publishing them in Harper’s, where they fell flat. This was a good many years before a genius arose who in ‚Uncle Remus‘ made the stories immortal.” “Some of these animal stories are common to widely separated [Native American] tribes among whom there can be no suspicion of [African] influences. Thus the famous ‚tar baby‘ story has variants, not only among the Cherokee, but also in New Mexico, Washington [State], and southern Alaska—wherever, in fact,... ~ de.wikipedia.org