Posted on 08/07/2019 2:39:07 PM PDT by Perseverando
George Washington Carver was born a slave during the Civil War, possibly in 1865, but there are no records.
Within a few weeks, his father, who belonged to the next farm over, was killed in a log hauling accident.
Shortly after the Civil War, bushwhackers from the Democrat South kidnapped infant George with his mother and sister.
Moses Carver sent friends to track down the thieves and trade his best horse to retrieve them.
The thieves only left baby George, lying on the ground, sick with the whooping cough, an illness which permanently effected his physical constitution.
George never saw his mother and sister again.
Illness claimed the lives of his two other sisters and they were buried on the Carver farm.
George and his older brother, Jim, were raised in Diamond Grove, Missouri, by "Uncle" Moses and "Aunt" Sue Carver, a childless German immigrant couple.
Jim died of smallpox, and George suffered from poor health as a child.
He stayed near the house helping with chores, learning to cook, clean, sew, mend and wash laundry, skills that he would later use to support himself.
His recreation was to spend time in the woods.
The Carvers supported George's decision to leave home to attend school in Neosho, Missouri.
He paid his own tuition by doing odd jobs.
In the intervening years, George Carver drifted from Missouri, to Kansas, to Iowa, working as a cook and doing laundry.
He studied at Simpson College, then received a bachelor's and master's degree from Iowa State Agricultural Institute, where he was hired as a teacher.
In the Spring of 1896, Booker T. Washington invited George Washington
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A “professional” writer that doesn’t know the difference between affect and effect?
Pretty hard to take anything seriously after that, no matter how ‘well-researched’ the rest may be.
Why can’t Johnny read? Nobody knows how to write anymore!
We didn’t see his original.
The misspelling was most likely caused by spellcheck on the computer the article was typed on.
Many otherwise very good articles published on the internet contain errors that would have been found and corrected in the old days.
Surely you know this.
Bkmk
You still have to proofread. Lazy writer!
Carver was the Grand Marshall of the First National Peanut Festival. It was in the 1930s in Dothan, Alabama. You know, the home of White Racists.
Thanks for a great post, hope to see more
Spill chick us weevil.
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Yes, I am aware of the excuses manifested by spell checkers and grammar programs. Editors and proof reading are evidently vestiges of another era, where words had distinct and clear meanings, not whatever the writer ‘felt’ at that moment.
The writer still has ultimate responsibility for his/her words. Blaming technology is lazy and intellectually dishonest.
As I said earlier, children can’t read anymore because the supposed adults seem to have forgotten how to write.
Don’t call me surely!
I hate the loss of editors and proofreaders, but there is an upside and that is that the reduced cost of publication means that a lot of new talent (like you and me, for example) gets a chance at the big time.;-)
FTA: George Washington Carver: I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice.”
He would be called an Uncle Tom and a racist and everything else negative by the democrats.
In 1969 I was attending Iowa State University and had a couple of classes in the new G.W. Carver building.
I live about an hour from the George Washington Carver National Monument, just north of Neosho, MO.
My grand daughter wrote an essay on him last February for her third grade class. It was so good, she was invited to read it to the entire school at morning assembly. She quoted him several times, and even quoted some of his prayers. Looking out at the assembly, I saw several teachers with tears in their eyes.
What a great man. Visit the GWC NM if you ever get a chance.
Though from a disadvantaged background, George did not let this pull him down into self-pity, bitterness, or yielding to a hateful victim-hood mentality.
And now you know why Public Schools will NEVER teach this stuff anymore, we learned about these people when I was in school,in the 60’s. There really some fantastic advancements for colored people, funny how Welfare destroyed the Black Family in so few years. But hey the Democrats got their Slave back and that’s all that matters.
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