Uncle Remus <i>His Songs and His Sayings</i> The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation

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Author: Joel Chandler Harris (1845-1908) Year: 1881 Publisher: D Appleton and Company Place: New York Description: 231+[8 ad] pages with frontispiece, 6 other plates and diagrams. Small octavo ((7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt rabbit pictorial to cover with black back ground drawing. Illustrations by Frederick S Church and James H Moser. First edition, first state with "presumptive" on last line page 9 and "New Books. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine" (BAL 7100:1). Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings; The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation is a landmark 1881 collection of African American folktales compiled and adapted by white American journalist Joel Chandler Harris. Originally published by D. Appleton Company, the book introduced a global audience to the Br'er Rabbit trickster tales and remains a highly influential yet deeply controversial work of American literature. Though framed as innocent children's stories, the fables carry deep socio-political allegories: Slavery Survival Strategy: Most of the stories originated from West African oral traditions brought to the Americas by enslaved people. On an allegorical level, Br'er Rabbit represents the enslaved African American population who had to use intellect to survive against the dominant white plantation owners (represented by the stronger animals). The book completely revolutionized animal-centric children's literature. It heavily influenced subsequent works lik

• Printing: first
• Binding: Hardcover

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