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__George Washington Carver__

George Carver was born 1864 near Diamond Grove Missouri on the farm of Moses Carver. He was born into difficult and changing time near the end of Civil War. George and his other were both kidnapped by knight raiders and possible token to Arkansas. Moses carver found George after the war but his mother was forever disappeared. His dad's identity remains unknown but his father was a slave from a neighboring farm. It was Moses' farm where George fell in love with agriculture and nature. Moses and Susan carver claimed George and his brother as his adopted parents. He had his own little garden in the nearby woods where he would talk to the plants.

[|George Washington Carver] put his life into research projects connected with agriculture. George created crop-rotation methods for the nutrients in soil, and he discovered hundreds of new uses for crops such as the peanut. That created new markets for farmers. Even though he was the greatest agriculturist he also had equality and respect of all. Rising from slavery to become one of the worlds most respected and honored men, he devoted his life to understanding nature and many uses for the plant life.

George taught himself how to read. His family was so poor that they couldn’t even afford a pencil. He wanted to get an education, so when he was 12 years old he had left home to attend a black school. It was 75 kids and 1 teacher in a tiny room. When kids played at recess he would study. He would study before and after chores and soon he knew more than his teacher. He wrote to a college to enroll and accepted him but when they found out he was black he couldn't attend anymore. When he was 30 years old he got accepted to Iowa state college and studied Botany. Learning about plants and farming. He became the smartest Botany student there.

He created [|325 products from peanuts], more than 100 products from sweet potatoes and hundreds more from a dozen of other plants in the south. He worked on improving soils, and growing crops. Carver did not profit most of his products. He freely gave his discoveries to mankind. He changes the south from being a one-crop land of cotton to being a multi-crop farm land. "God gave them to me" that’s what he would say about his ideas. He died in 1943. The area of his childhood near Diamond Grove, Missouri is now preserved as a park. The park was the first national monument to an African American in the United States.

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