The Tar-Baby

Name: The Tar-Baby
Author: Joel Chandler Harris

by Joel Chandler Harris

Story collection featuring the famous Tar-Baby folktale and other narratives

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Joel Chandler Harris

Joel Chandler Harris compiled and popularized the African American folklore tradition of Brer Rabbit and related trickster tales through his Uncle Remus series. Though a white writer presenting Black vernacular tradition, his work preserved stories that might otherwise have been lost.

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