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Well known for his humorous paragraphs widely reprinted across Georgia, Harris was quickly hired as a columnist and editorial writer by Atlanta’s major newspaper, the Atlanta Constitution.
The Constitution had for some time been using “an antebellum darky” named Old Si for comic comment on its editorial page. Written in dialect, the Old Si sketches had been a great hit, but their creator was leaving the paper. The new staff member was given the assignment; he told his employers, “I know the old time Middle Georgia Negro pretty well.”
A character named Remus appeared briefly in the October 31, 1876, issue, followed by Uncle Remus himself on November 28; for the next three years Harris periodically published sketches about this first Uncle Remus, an elderly ex-slave who occasionally dropped by the Constitution offices to beg from the staff and talk his darky talk. This Uncle Remus, little more than a delegate for white A
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