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.