In substance they lie somewhere between the Southern dialect animal stories of Joel Chandler Harris ( Uncle Remus ) and the polished, witty fables of James Thurber.

Joel Chandler Harris's ' Br ' er Rabbit ' of the Uncle Remus stories is said to be patterned after High John the Conqueror.

The Brer Rabbit stories of Joel Chandler Harris had been family favourites and she later studied his Uncle Remus stories and illustrated them.

* July 9 – James Baskett, American actor ( Uncle Remus in Disney's Song of the South ) ( d. 1948 ) ( b. 1904 )

** James Baskett, African-American actor ( Uncle Remus in Disney's Song of the South ) ( d. 1948 )

Variations of the tale appeared in Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings in 1881.

The story also made an appearance in Nights with Uncle Remus in 1883, both by Joel Chandler Harris, in which the pigs were replaced by Brer Rabbit.

* Uncle Remus ( disambiguation )

James Baskett ( February 16, 1904 – July 9, 1948 ) was an American actor known for his portrayal of Uncle Remus, singing the song " Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah " in the 1946 Disney feature film Song of the South.

Uncle Remus as portrayed by James Baskett in Song of the South

In 1945, he auditioned for a bit part voicing one of the animals in the new Disney feature film Song of the South ( 1946 ), based on the Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris.

Walt Disney was impressed with Baskett's talent and hired him on the spot for the lead role of Uncle Remus.

On March 20, 1948, Baskett received an Honorary Academy Award for his performance as Uncle Remus.

The film is based on the Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris.

The live actors provide a sentimental frame story, in which Uncle Remus relates the folk tales of the adventures of Br ' er Rabbit and his friends.

Harris ' original Uncle Remus stories were all set after the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery ( Harris himself, born in 1845, was a racial reconciliation activist writer and journalist of the Reconstruction era ).

The film makes several indirect references to the Reconstruction era: clothing is in the newer late-Victorian style ; Uncle Remus is free to leave the plantation at will ; black field hands are sharecroppers, etc.

As Johnny sneaks away from the plantation, he is attracted by the voice of Uncle Remus ( the main character of the film ), telling tales " in his old-timey way " of a character named Br ' er Rabbit.

By this time, word has gotten out that Johnny is gone and some plantation residents, who are sent out to find him, ask if Uncle Remus has seen the boy.

Uncle Remus replies that he's with him.

As Uncle Remus cooks, he mentions Br ' er Rabbit again and the boy, curious, asks him to tell him more.

After Uncle Remus tells a tale about Br ' er Rabbit's attempt to run away from home, Johnny takes the advice and changes his mind about leaving the plantation, letting Uncle Remus take him back to his mother.

And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.

It is, of course, easy to see how `` J '' will mean Uncle Jack to one person and little Jane to another.

It is evident that Lizzie did not tell everything she overheard between her father and her Uncle Morse.

* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.

An Uncle Sam is mentioned as early as 1775, in the original " Yankee Doodle " lyrics of the Revolutionary War.

The best-selling anti-slavery novel from the 19th century is Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852.

Uncle Tom's Cabin is mentioned briefly in Gone with the Wind as being accepted by the Yankees as, " revelation second only to the Bible ".

Uncle Peter is Aunt Pittypat's coach driver.

Uncle is nearly asleep when he feels the bugs walking on his nose.

Algernon, however, refuses his consent until Ernest explains why his cigarette case bears the inscription, “ From little Cecily, with her fondest love to her dear Uncle Jack .” John-Ernest is forced to admit to living a double life.

Long fascinated by Uncle Jack ’ s hitherto absent black sheep brother, she is predisposed to fall for Algernon in his role of Ernest -- whose name she ’ s particularly fond of.

* March 20 – Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published.

* Uncle John Joad – Older brother of Pa Joad ( Tom describes him as " a fella about 60 ", but the narrator later tells you he is 50 ), feels responsible for the death of his young wife years before when he ignored her pleas for a doctor because he thought she just had a stomachache, when she actually had a burst appendix.

* Jesse L. Duke ( Denver Pyle ), referred to by just about everyone in Hazzard other than Boss Hogg as " Uncle Jesse ", is the patriarch of the Duke clan, and the father-figure to all Dukes who stayed with him on the dilapidated " Duke Farm.

* Coy Duke ( Byron Cherry ) ( 1982 – 83 ), the replacement for Bo, is another blond-haired cousin who moved to Uncle Jesse's farm along with cousin Vance after Bo and Luke left Hazzard to join the NASCAR circuit.

The beginning of the propagation of dance and accompanying music called polka is generally attributed to a young woman, Anna Slezakova ( born Anna Chadimova ) of Labska Tynice, Bohemia, who danced to accompany a local folk song called " Strycek Nimra koupil simla ", or " Uncle Nimra Bought a White Horse ", in 1834.

It became the best-selling American novel of the 19th century, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and is considered " the most influential Christian book of the ...

Clark quickly realizes that once Uncle Tom is released, no matter what happens, their kidnappers will have little reason to keep their prisoners alive.

Uncle Tom feels that Clark is dangerous and maladjusted, and attributes this to the mother giving priority to her career.

: This article is about the character from the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the resulting epithet.

Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

The phrase " Uncle Tom " has also become an epithet for a person who is slavish and excessively subservient to perceived authority figures, particularly a black person who behaves in a subservient manner to white people ; or any person perceived to be a participant in the oppression of their own group.

At the time of the novel's initial publication in 1851 Uncle Tom was a rejection of the existing stereotypes of minstrel shows ; Stowe's melodramatic story humanized the suffering of slavery for White audiences by portraying Tom as a Christlike figure who is ultimately martyred, beaten to death by a cruel master because Tom refuses to betray the whereabouts of two women who escape from slavery.