“The University of North Carolina Extension Bulletin in 1925 published a booklet of historical pageants for youths, ‘Children of Old Carolina,’ by Ethel Theodora Rockwell. … Any elementary school in North Carolina was obliged to send $10 for each performance [it staged], while those outside North Carolina had to pay $25.
“The cast of ‘Children of Old Carolina’ include ‘colored’ characters played by children, presumably in blackface. When the character of a ‘negro boy,’ playing a lively tune on a banjo, enters, the ‘colored children carrying baskets and bags of cotton’ join him onstage singing, ‘Dis cott’n want a-pickin’ so bad’…
“The play encourages children to act out the revised history of an Old South populated by happy African American slaves who cannot wait to pick cotton.”
— From “Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South” by Kristina DuRocher (2011)
The play is among the numerous UNC Extension Bulletins in the North Carolina Collection. Many have been scanned and are available online, including “Children of Old Carolina”. The play is here: http://archive.org/stream/universityofnort419241925#632