George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver was born into slavery at the end of the Civil War, near Diamond Grove Missouri. His mother was owned by Moses Carver and his paternity is unknown. It is believed that his father was a slave on a neighboring farm who was killed in a log-hauling accident shortly after George was born. Moses Carver was a prosperour slave owning Unionist and was the target of Confederate bushwhacking on three different occasions. Near the end of the Civil War a group of these road onto Carver's land in search of money. George's brother Jim was able to hide, but young George and his mother Mary were kidnapped and taken to Arkansas. George was relocated in 1865 and was returned to Moses Carver, but Mary was never found. Moses Carver and his wife Susan raised both George and Jim as if they were their own. This was very unconventional due to their basic opposition to slavery and their support for the Uniion. Jim was stronger and helped Moses with the outdoor work, while Jim was sickly and frail. He helped Susan indoors. She taught him how to cook, bake, sew, and do other household chores, as well as how to read. He soon developed a love for drawing as well as an interest in nature and anim
One of Carver's most valiable contributions was his development of the crop-rotation method at Tuskegee. This revolutionized Southern agriculture. At this time, agriculture in the deep South was in serious trouble. The single-crop cultivation of cotton had left the soil fields worthless and exhausted. George urged Southern farmers to plant peanuts and soy beans, which are soil enriching crops; they restore nitrogen in the soil. Carver found that Alabama's soil was well suited for growing peanuts and sweet poatoes, but they ran into a problem. There was not a strong demand for these products on the market. He conducted thourough laboratory research in order to discover and declare the commercial possibilities of the peanut and the sweet potato. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ These possibilities were found, in that 300 products were derived from the peanut and 100 from the sweet potato. His achievements helped the economy of the farming South that had been devesated by the Civil War, and also because of the fact that cotton and tobacco plantations were no longer using slave labor. His suggestions about these products helped to change the region. By 1938, peanuts had become the c
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