Born
a slave in Missouri, George Washington Carver rose to be one of the most renowned
educators and agricultural researchers in the world. When only an infant, he and
his mother were abducted by slave raiders, and although he was found and returned
to his owner's farm, his mother disappeared from his life forever. Overcoming
all obstacles of the time, Carver learned to read, graduated from college in Iowa,
and finally achieved residence at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. During his life
of agricultural research he is credited for the discovery of many hundreds of
environmentally friendly uses for agricultural crops, including over three hundred
uses for peanuts and many hundreds more uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes
and other crops. He patented only three of his many discoveries, never profiting
from most, but working instead in service to the world.
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