Traditional tales told by slaves, written in dialect.

This book gathers seventy-one of the author's most popular stories of the Antebellum South, including the classic trickster tales of Brer Rabbit, creation myths, Sea Island legends, and chilling ghost stories. Told through the distinctive voices of four slave storytellers, these anthropomorphic tales have not only created cultural icons like the "Tar Baby," but have inspired writers from Mark Twain to William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston to Toni Morrison, and helped revolutionize modern children's literature and folktale collecting.--adapted from back cover.