Monday, June 30, 2008
Tar Baby Story
Listen to a live telling of the Tar Barby Story: CLICK!
The Tar Baby Story Is The Most Famous Brer Rabbit Story
Original Illustration
The Brer Rabbit Stories Were Written the Way That Harris Remembered Hearing Them Told.
The Text Is Difficult to Read. It Is In A Slave Dialect.
The Use of Slave Dialect Is Controversial Now.
It Is A Reminder of A Time When Slaves Worked On Southern Plantations.
Native American Trickster Tales
Illustrations from Gerald McDermott's Interpretations of Native American Trickster Tales
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