Brother Rabbit, just like Brother Wolf (The. Brer Wolf) and Brother Squirrel (The. Brer Squirrel) and other forest animals are characters from Uncle Remus' fairy tales (The. Uncle Remus), he told a little white boy who was fascinated by these human-like creatures. The author of the fairy tales is Joel Chandler Harris. Harris was white, who grew in the plantations of the South and never forgot the tales of black farmers. He also did not forget about the influence, what these stories had on him and on his black children, who also listened to them.
In Uncle Remus' tales, the African tradition of humanizing animals is revived. They are also an allegory of slavery. The weak rabbit wins at home. Brer Rabbit (which probably means Brother Rabbit – Brother Rabbit in the dialect of the South) he is "the cunning creature in the forest."” and always outsmart the Lord Man. A book called Uncle Remus and His Friends, Old Plantation Stories, Songs, and Ballads with Sketches of Negro Character, whose author is J.C. Harris, this is the source, which this story comes from.
