Born into slavery in Missouri, Carver became the most famous Black scientist of his era at Tuskegee Institute, teaching Southern farmers ruined by cotton monoculture to rotate with peanuts, sweet potatoes and cowpeas that restored their soil, and inventing scores of uses for those crops so the rotation would pay. His bulletins and mobile school carried agronomy to sharecroppers no university would teach. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Defining ContributionCrop rotation extension and alternative crops for the post-slavery American South 1 Disputed
Birth YearBorn into slavery; his exact birth date was not recorded. Circa 1864 per the sources. Connections
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George Washington Carver (c. 1864, January 5, 1943) was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion.
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