>>> Dennis Claxton
>Br'er Rabbit
Does this connection make Teddy Roosevelt the first black president?
^^^^ Wasn't Lincoln Black ?
Doc Rabbit
^^^
>[Robert] Roosevelt is credited with influencing his nephew, Theodore
>Roosevelt, to become a conservationist. He also was a popular author
>and a friend of such writers such as Oscar Wilde. Theodore
>Roosevelt, in his biography, credits Robert with being the first to
>scribe the "Br'er Rabbit" stories (which had been passed down orally
>by slaves), "publishing them in Harper's, where they fell flat. This
>was a good many years before a genius arose who, in 'Uncle Remus',
>made the stories immortal." (Roosevelt was referring to Joel
>Chandler Harris, who first published the Uncle Remus stories in The
>Atlanta Journal in 1879).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Roosevelt
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