Documents 1 and 3 both have to do with the development of growing and picking cotton and other plants. The boys and girls were taught indifferently how to associate themselves with the cotton process. The boy’s job was to go out into the fields and pick all the cotton that was ready to be picked. The girls had to clean the cotton and sow it together to make a variety of different types of cloth and other useful objects to use. A cotton picker otherwise known as the “stripper” could have been a very useful machine for the boys to use while working. Also a cotton gin would’ve been