![]() ![]() “I was amazed to realise how little comment there has been over the years about the many similarities between Potter’s tales and the Africa-originated Brer Rabbit folktales”, Zobel Marshall said. By the early 19th century, the raw cotton used in these mills was sourced from the Americas, and Manchester’s economic success was deeply connected to the enslavement of African people. ![]() Rupert married a wealthy heiress, Helen Leech, whose family were also cotton mill owners. Potter’s grandfather, Edmund Potter, was a Manchester cotton mill owner whose wealth was inherited by Beatrix’s father, Rupert, a lawyer and photographer. It is therefore likely that her early contact with the Brer Rabbit tales (in comparison with the rest of the British public) was a result of her family roots in the cotton industry,” Zobel Marshall writes. “These stories had not been published in the UK when Beatrix Potter was a child. Linda Lear’s 2008 biography of Potter, A Life in Nature, notes that while her “first audience was British”, her work was strongly influenced by Harris – “whose Brer Rabbit stories she had loved as a child”.Ĭopies of Harris’s Brer Rabbit folktale collections, bearing her father’s bookplate, were found at Potter’s home in the Lake District after she died in 1943. The Uncle Remus stories, as they became known, thanks to the name of Harris’s fictional African American narrator, were familiar to Potter. ![]()
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So, we were rushing because of my sitting down and getting my finger cleaned.” “They knew it was going to be rough for me continuing, but they cleaned it out with this antiseptic, which honestly hurt so bad. “So, made me sit down again after the tires because it was dirty,” she said. At one point, her hand slipped and the ball ricocheted, hitting her straight in the face. ![]() ![]() However, she struggled to pull back the sling far enough due to her injury. Then, she and Gutiérrez reached the slingshot challenge, during which they each had to hit a target twice. ![]() First, they had to carry multiple tires, which led to her finger getting dirty and the wound reopening. Kaiser refused to give up and continued to the next checkpoints. “The Challenge: Ride or Dies” Jonne Roriz ![]() |