High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Uncle Tom`s Children is a collection of short stories by African American author Richard Wright, also the author of Black Boy, Native Son, and The Outsider. Uncle Tom`s Children includes four short stories and was successful when it was first published in 1938. In 1940, Harper reissued the volume as Uncle Tom`s Children: Five Long Stories, incorporating "Bright and Morning Star" as well as placing "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow" as the text`s introduction. Interestingly, the Harper Perennial edition of Wright`s novel Black Boy, under the heading `Books by Richard Wright`, misprints "Uncle Tom`s Children" as "Uncle Tom`s Cabin".