John the Conqueror second cousin/That little Johnny Conqueroo", and in "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" it is called "John De Conquer Blue". John the Conqueror was an African prince who was sold as a slave in the Americas. Despite his enslavement, his spirit was never broken and he survived in folklore as a sort of a trickster figure, because of the tricks he played to evade his masters. Joel Chandler Harris's Br'er Rabbit of the "Uncle Remus" stories is said to be patterned after High John the Conqueror. Zora Neale Hurston wrote of his adventures ("High John de Conquer") in her collection of
Song of the South rental market by Intercontinental Video Ltd, which has been the exclusive distributor of Walt Disney Studios since 1988. This release appears to have been created from a PAL videotape, and has a 4% faster running time because of its PAL source. While most foreign releases of the film are literal translations of the English title, the German title, "Onkel Remus' Wunderland", translates to "Uncle Remus' Wonderland", the Italian title, "I Racconti Dello Zio Tom," translates to "The Stories of Uncle Tom", and the Norwegian title "Onkel Remus forteller" translates to "Storyteller Uncle Remus." In July 2017 after being inaugurated as