I started my Wikipedia Trail on Brer Rabbit since I ended up
reading this story this week. Brer Rabbit is considered a trickster hero who
has foes of Brer Fox and Brer Wolf. My favorite story I read was of Tar-Baby
where he is almost tricked into getting stuck onto a Tar-Baby by Brer Fox. He was
created by Joel Chandler Harris so I went to his page next. Harris was a journalist
and fiction writer during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. One of the most
influential pieces to him writing these stories was Uncle Tom’s Cabin by
Harriet Beecher Stowe. This book was written in 1852 and focused on the typical
stereotypes African Americans faced in pre-Civil War America. Next, I chose AbrahamLincoln because I find him to be one of my favorite presidents. He was born in
Kentucky in 1809 and passed in 1865 as the 16th president.
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| Wikipedia: Young Abraham Lincoln |
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