Joel Chandler Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, the
illegitimate son of Mary Harris. At 13 Harris became an apprentice
printer on "The Countryman," a plantation newspaper edited and
published by Joseph Addison Turner, a highly literate planter,
lawyer, and writer. Harris then worked on newspapers in several
Southern cities. In 1876 Harris began a twenty-four-year
association with the "Atlanta Constitution." He used folklore,
fiction, dialect, and other devices of local color to picture both
black and white Georgians under slavery and Reconstruction.
Harris's work as a columnist led to his creation of Uncle Remus,
the black singer of songs and teller of stories. The tales,
collected in "Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings" (1880) and
elsewhere, are based upon folklore and are told by the venerable
family servant to a little boy on a Georgia plantation. Remus, the
old storyteller, is wise, perceptive, imaginative, poetic, and
gifted with a sly sense of humor. Their hero, Brer Rabbit, is "the
weakest and most harmless of all animals," but he is "victorious in
contests with the bear, the wolf, and the fox." Thus "it is not
virtue that triumphs, but helplessness; it is not malice, but
mischievousness."
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