Joel Chandler Harris was a humorist and Southern writer of local-color who is most famous for Negro Folklore: The Story of Mr. Rabbit and
Other Stories.

Harris was born in 1834 in North Carolina. He was the son of a slave. He was a slave himself until he was freed at the age of 21. He was a teacher and a preacher. He was a member of the Freedman's Aid Society. He was a member of