Nights with Uncle Remus

Firelight in a cabin, a white child come down from the big house, and an old man opening his mouth to say what the rabbit did next. The tales Uncle Remus tells in this second, larger book came out of West Africa and crossed the ocean in the holds of slave ships, and Joel Chandler Harris heard them as a stammering apprentice printer in the quarters at Turnwold, where men who were owned told stories after dark.