George Washington Carver

The Plant Doctor Who Grew a New South

von Griot House

46 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Born enslaved on a Missouri farm around 1864 and orphaned of his mother as an infant, George Washington Carver grew up frail, poor, and free - a boy nicknamed "the plant doctor" who kept a secret garden in the woods. Hungry to learn, he walked away in search of schooling and became the first Black student and faculty member at Iowa State, then gave his life to Alabama's Tuskegee Institute. There he taught poor Southern farmers to heal cotton-ruined soil through crop rotation, found hundreds of uses for the peanut and sweet potato, and carried knowledge to the countryside in a travelling wagon - asking almost nothing in return. This is the true story of the scientist behind the legend, peanut myths and all: a humble, brilliant man who tried to grow a new South from the ground up