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* The ''Uncle Remus'' stories are a group of actual fables told by slaves and former slaves in the American South, making them a valuable cultural resource. However, though once popular, they are now nearly unknown. Compiler and editor Joel Chandler Harris' fictional character who tells the stories, Uncle Remus, was written as an elderly ex-slave who was basically content to continue to work for a white family. The implied racism is now almost all that is known of the stories. The fables themselves, taken out of the Remus context, are stories about animals using their wiles to trick each other, and man, in order to survive. Unlike Aesop's fables, they are not meant to be morally instructive, but are a commentary on man resorting to animal-like behaviors in desperate circumstances.

* ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'' had an ongoing controversy that the publication of this book inspired over slavery, particularly in the years leading up to the [[American Civil War]]. However, few people have actually read the book. At the time of release, the outrage was from the Confederacy side because of the very overt anti-slavery theme of the book; on years after the war, the controversy was because of the belief that the book was actually racist instead of [[Fair for Its Day]] on its condemnation of slavery, not helped by actually racist creators using the names of the black characters from the book to name [[Uncle Tomfoolery|Afro-American characters who acted silly and subservient to whites]] in [[Minstrel Shows]] when the book characters were not like that.

 

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