The Tar-Baby Story is well known, from generations of children's retellings, and Hollywood's film including the story, in "Song of the South." The result is that we know the version that appeared on film, and the kiddie books, better than the original. We accept all those as "Uncle Remus" but many of them are not. The film version, for example, by act and omission raises many racial issues, stereotypes, adds characters and blackens them bigly for more racial effect, and all that just gets absorbed.
Please see a more complete discussion at Joy of Equivocating: Benign and Malignant Walt Disney. or that is retold with many changes that raise racial issues.
See also the discussion on why we fill in blanks - discomfort with uncertainty - as seen in Walt Disney's treatment of the Tar-Baby and Briar Patch stories, in Joy of Equivocating: Where Fear of Uncertainty Leads Us.
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