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1864 George Washington Carver: Born A Slave
In 1864 George Washington Carver was born a slave. His mother was also a slave. Theslave owners that he had were strictly against slavery. They treated their slaves like familyfriends and paid them to do jobs. When he was two, his mother was taken by slave poachers. Theslave owners adopted him and that is where he got his last name.In 1890 Carver went to Simpson College in Iowa. 1921 Carver spoke to the US Congressabout the importance of the peanut. In 1943, George Washington Carver died on January 5 inAlabama.He got rejected from a lot of schools because he was black. All the schools in Missouriwere segregated. He wanted to go to a lot of colleges in Missouri but he couldn’t. People called him the peanut man because he created lots of ways
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