Welcome to the Uncle Remus Page.  This 
page is designed to keep the stories told 
by Uncle Remus alive.  Uncle Remus was a
slave in Georgia who attended to his slave
owner's farm which contained cotton, 
tobacco and corn.  The cabin where he lived
had only one room where he cooked, slept
and smoked his corn cobbed pipe.

Joel Chandler Harris 
(1848-1908) is famous for his 
creation of Uncle Remus, 
Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer 
Bear and other characters as 
in Uncle Remus, His Songs 
and His Sayings (1880), 
Nights with Uncle Remus 
(1883), Uncle Remus and His 
Friends (1892), The Tar Baby 
(1904), Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit (1906); 
edited Uncle Remus's Magazine (1907-08). 
Other works included Mingo, and Other 
Sketches in Black and White (1884), Free Joe
and Other Georgia Sketches (1887), Gabriel 
Tolliver (1902).

Harris, who had grown up in Georgia during the
Civil War, spent a lifetime compiling and 
publishing the tales told to him by former slaves.
These stories - many of which Harris learned 
from an old black man he called "Uncle 
George" - were first published as columns in 
"The Atlanta Constitution" and were later 
syndicated nationwide and published in book 
form. Harris's Uncle Remus was a fictitious old
slave and philosopher who told entertaining 
fables about Br'er Rabbit and other woodland 
creatures in a Southern black dialect.

The Wren's Nest, the home of Georgia author 
and journalist Joel Chandler Harris and a 
National Historic Landmark.

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A Letter From President 
Theodore Roosevelt

To Joel Chandler Harris

White House, Oct. 12, 1901.

MY DEAR HARRIS:

It is worth while being President when one's small 
daughter receives that kind of an autograph gift. 
When I was younger than she is, my Aunt Annie 
Bulloch, of Georgia, used to tell me some of the 
brer rabbit stories, especially brer rabbit and the 
tar baby. But fond though I am of the brer rabbit 
stories I think I am even fonder of your other 
writings. I doubt if there is a more genuinely 
pathetic tale in all our literature than "Free 
Joe." Moreover I have felt that all that you write 
serves to bring our people closer together. I know, 
of course, the ordinary talk is that an artist 
should be judged purely by his art; but I am rather 
a Philistine and like to feel that the art serves a 
good purpose. Your art is not only an art addition 
to our sum of national achievement, but it has also 
always been an addition to the forces that tell for 
decency, and above all for the blotting out of 
sectional antagonism.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Brass Marker Honoring Joel Chandler Harris
on Putnam County Courthouse Square in
Eatonton, Georgia. The marker contains the 
following inscription:

¬ BROTHER RABBIT CHINTZ 
(The name of the pattern)

Designed by William Morris,
1882. 

The Brother Rabbit pattern was inspired, 
according to May Morris, by the ‘Uncle 
Remus’ stories which her father was reading
to the family at their Hammersmith home, 
Kelmscott House. It was one of the first 
textiles to be printed at Merton Abbey, 
where Morris & Co. moved its workshop
premises at the end of 1881.
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