Woke busybodies are now targeting the late British author Beatrix Potter, accusing her of 'cultural appropriation' and stealing her Peter Rabbit stories from slaves.
“Her tales owe a debt to the Brer Rabbit stories told by enslaved Africans working on American plantations that needs to be fully acknowledged,” Marshall wrote in her essay, which was published this month in The Conversation.
Zobel Marshall alleges Potter’s early contact with the “Brer Rabbit” tales was a result of her family’s roots in the cotton industry, which she describes as “She also alleges Potter learned of “Brer Rabbit” tales through the books of American journalist and folklorist Joel Chandler Harris, who created the “Uncle Remus” character.
She claims Potter tried to “steer readers away from her sources” and that her actions were “problematic,” adding that thebooks are really about the “resistance and survival tactics of the plantation life of enslaved people in the Americas.”Potter’s actions in shielding the reading public from her sources have fed into a damaging and reoccurring appropriation of Black cultural forms that continues today.
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