W&M ScholarWorks Undergraduate Honors Theses Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects 4-1997 "Wen I wuz young" : the socialization and education of slave children on low country plantations, 1800-1860 Elizabeth Marshall Keys College of William and Mary Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Keys, Elizabeth Marshall, ""Wen I wuz young" : the socialization and education of slave children on low country plantations, 1800-1860" (1997). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 564. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/564 This Honors Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects at W&M ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Undergraduate Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of W&M ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. "Wen I wuz Young": The Socialization and Education of Slave Children on Low Country Plantations, 1800-1860 A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Bachelor of Arts with Honors in History from the College of William and Mary in Virginia, by Elizabeth Marshall Keys Accepted for 1-4 L~ J., l+t>." 0 ('"5 (Honors, High Hon rs, or HIghest Honors) Williamsburg, Virginia April, 1997 Prefatory Note I have chosen to use--in the title of this thesis and in the text--passages from interviews with former slaves taken by white interviewers as part of the Federal Writers Project division of the Works Progress Administration. Even during the 1930s when the interviews were conducted, some effort was made to encourage interviewers not to try to replicate all the dialect of those being interviewed.