Description

""Uncle Remus His Songs and His Sayings"" is a collection of African American folktales and songs compiled by Joel Chandler Harris. The book is set in the Southern United States during the Reconstruction Era and features the character of Uncle Remus, an elderly African American man who tells stories to a young white boy named Johnny.The stories are told in a dialect that reflects the speech patterns of African Americans in the South during the 19th century. They often feature animals as the main characters and convey moral lessons through their adventures.The book includes well-known tales such as ""The Tar Baby"" and ""Brer Rabbit and the Briar Patch."" It also features songs and rhymes that were commonly sung by African American slaves.""Uncle Remus His Songs and His Sayings"" has been both praised for its preservation of African American folklore and criticized for its portrayal of African Americans as simple and childlike. Despite this controversy, the book has remained a popular classic of American literature and has been adapted into various forms of media, including films and television shows.1880. With over 100 illustrations. American author and journalist, Harris is famous for humorous adaptations of black folk legends in the Uncle Remus Stories. These folktales, to by a Negro to a little boy, feature a variety of animals with the rabbit as hero and the fox next in importance, and often stress the importance of brains over brawn.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.