Tar Baby

a tar doll, set up by a roadside, which so irritates Br'er Rabbit by its unresponsiveness that he strikes it until he is stuck tight. From the book Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings (1880) by Joel Chandler Harris, 1848-1908, American journalist and author. It is a book of folk tales told by Uncle Remus, an aging Negro servant, whose stories are based on traditional fables of his race. Many of the characters, such as Br'er (Brother) Rabbit, are animals endowed with human qualities.

See also Br'er Rabbit in this glossary.