Uncle Remus Uncle Remus Uncle Remus is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of African-American folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris, published in book form in 1881. A journalist in post-Reconstruction Atlanta, Georgia, Harris produced seven Uncle Remus books. He wrote these stories to represent the struggle in the Southern United States, and more specifically in the plantations. He did so by introducing tales he had heard and framing them in the plantation context. He wrote his stories in a dialect that represented the voice of the narrators and their subculture. For this choice of framing, his
Remus (moon) expected to be quite stable: it lies far inside Sylvia's Hill sphere (about 1/100 of Sylvia's Hill radius), but also far outside the synchronous orbit. From Remus' surface, Sylvia appears huge, taking up an angular region roughly 30°×18° across, while Romulus' apparent size varies between 1.6° and 0.5° across. Remus (moon) Remus is the inner and smaller moon of the main-belt asteroid 87 Sylvia. It follows an almost-circular close-to-equatorial orbit around the parent asteroid. In this respect it is similar to the other moon Romulus. Remus was discovered several years after Romulus on images taken starting on August 9, 2004,