Beatrix Potter has been accused of 'cultural appropriation' by an academic who claimed the author's most beloved tales copied folk stories told by African slaves.ĭr Emily Zobel Marshall, an expert in postcolonial literature at Leeds Beckett University, has called for wider acknowledgment of the debt Potter owed to the Brer Rabbit stories told by enslaved Africans working on American plantations.Īccording to the research scholar, the author's 'quintessentially English' tales of Peter Rabbit, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle and Jemima Puddle-Duck, were 'more than just inspired' by the Brer Rabbit stories told by slaves in the 1800s.
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