George Washington Carver Research Paper

George Washington Carver
One man, a former slave, overcame so much and helped thousands of people.George Washington Carver was born into slavery in early April of 1865 in Diamond Missouri. His owners were Moses and Susan carver. At a young age his father was killed in an accident on the farm. He never married and died in 1943 at the age of 79.
After his father died George, his sister, and his mother were kidnapped and brought to Arkansas. His owner Moses sent someone to get them back and payed a heavy price to get them back. He came back to Missouri with a bad case of Whooping Cough. His family was died in Arkansas, so his owner Moses took him in and he was a free person. Whooping cough made him frail for most of his childhood.
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frailness prohibited him from working on the farm, so he learned house skills. He loved to work in the garden, and he learned everything he could about plants. He wanted to know everything there was to know about plants and animals, but there was no one to teach him. He used his home and garden skills to make a some money, and the people around town called him the plant doctor. He learned so much that other people asked him questions. (Harness)
He went to many different schools in Missouri before graduating from Minneapolis High School. He was rejected from college because he was African American, but instead of finding another college he bought a homestead, performed biological experiments, and researched plants. After many years he finally got accepted into Simpson College where he studied the arts. He later went to Iowa State, where he was the first African American, to study agriculture and mechanics. When he graduated George was invited by Booker T. Washington to be a teacher at the Tuskegee Institute. (Famous Black Inventors)
Although he got special benefits, he refused to take a large amount of pay for his work. At the Tuskegee Institute he came up with hundreds of uses for peanuts, sweet potatoes, and pecans including, but not limited to a treatment for polio, soap, paint, plastic, and even gasoline. He also invented the Jesup Wagon that he used to go out to farmers in the field and teach them about crop rotation and alternate cash crops. He refused money and glory that his world changing inventions brought him
For a man that invented over 300 things from peanuts and advised world leaders, he had a modest life and death. He is buried at the Tuskegee Institute near Booker T. Washington.