<P> The film is set on a plantation in the southern United States , specifically in the state of Georgia , some distance from Atlanta . Although sometimes misinterpreted as taking place before the U.S. Civil War while slavery was still legal in the region , the film takes place during the Reconstruction Era after slavery was abolished . Harris ' original Uncle Remus stories were all set after the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery . Harris himself , born in 1848 , was a racial reconciliation activist writer and journalist of the Reconstruction Era . The film makes several indirect references to the Reconstruction Era : clothing is in the newer late - Victorian style ; Uncle Remus is free to leave the plantation at will ; black field hands are sharecroppers , etc . </P>
<P> The film is set on a plantation in the southern United States , specifically in the state of Georgia , some distance from Atlanta . Although sometimes misinterpreted as taking place before the U.S. Civil War while slavery was still legal in the region , the film takes place during the Reconstruction Era after slavery was abolished . Harris ' original Uncle Remus stories were all set after the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery . Harris himself , born in 1848 , was a racial reconciliation activist writer and journalist of the Reconstruction Era . The film makes several indirect references to the Reconstruction Era : clothing is in the newer late - Victorian style ; Uncle Remus is free to leave the plantation at will ; black field hands are sharecroppers , etc . </P>
where does song of the south take place
where does song of the south take place
on a plantation in the state of Georgia
on a plantation in the state of Georgia