George Washington Carver

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  1. Hello everybody. Before we start. Welcome.
  2. Okay,
  3. let's start.
  4. Okay,
  5. mm hmm.
  6. Childhood
  7. carver was born to slavery.
  8. The son of an enslaved woman named mary owned by moses carver.
  9. During the american civil war, the cover farm was raided.
  10. An infant George and his mother were connect and taken to Arkansas to be sold
  11. moses. Carver was eventually able to track down young George was unable to find mary
  12. Frail and sick.
  13. The motherless child returned to his master's plantation and nursed back to
  14. health with the complete abolition of slavery in the United States.
  15. In 1865, George was no longer an enslaved child.
  16. Mm hmm.
  17. He remained on the cover plantation until he was about 10 or 12 years old.
  18. When left to acquire an education.
  19. He spent some time wondering about working with his hands
  20. and developing a keen interest in plants and animals.
  21. He learned to draw and later in
  22. life he devoted considerable time demanding flowers,
  23. plants and landscapes.
  24. College years.
  25. Carver received a full scholarship to Kansas Highland College when
  26. he showed up on campus to enroll school administrators,
  27. administrators refused to admit him claiming that
  28. they had been unaware of his race.
  29. Once again covered commandos into his own hands.
  30. He's had a little home standing claim where he dedicated time
  31. to assembly an extensive collection of botany and geological specimens.
  32. Mm hmm.
  33. He eventually made his way to Iowa
  34. where the bright young man once again
  35. found support from a local couple john and Helen Milholland.
  36. They encouraged him to enroll in Simpson college, a small school open to all races
  37. Despite his later famous and agriculturalists,
  38. carver initially studied music and art.
  39. He even showed some of his paintings at the 1893 world's fair in Chicago
  40. plant life.
  41. Carver devoted his time to research
  42. projects aimed at helping southern agriculture,
  43. demonstrating ways in which farmers can improve the economic situation.
  44. Experiment time,
  45. he conducted experiments and soil management and
  46. crop production and directing an experimental farm.
  47. At this time agriculture in the Deep South was,
  48. it was in deep decline because of the unremitting single crop cultivation of
  49. cotton had left the soil in many fields exhausted and worthless and erosion
  50. had then taken its toll in areas like no longer sustain any plant cover.
  51. As a remedy cover you Southern farmers to plant peanuts and soybeans.
  52. Road to fame,
  53. Carver pioneered a mobile group to bring his lessons to farmers.
  54. The classroom was known as a jessup wagon After new york.
  55. Financier Antoski donor Morris ketchum jessup
  56. Carver went on to become a prominent scientific expert and one of the most
  57. famous african americans of his time.
  58. Carver achieved international fame and politics and professional circles.
  59. President Theodore Roosevelt admired his work and sought
  60. his advice on agriculture matters in the United States
  61. farming time.
  62. In 1914. At a time when the boll weevil
  63. weevil had almost ruined cotton grows
  64. carver revealed his experiments to the public
  65. and increasing numbers of the southern of this
  66. south, farmers began to turn to peanuts,
  67. sweet potatoes and their derivatives for income,
  68. Much exhausted land was renewed
  69. and the south became a major new supplier of agricultural products.
  70. When Carver arrived at Tuskegee in 1896,
  71. the Peanut had not even been recognized as a crop,
  72. but within the next half century became one of the six leading crops throughout
  73. the United States and in the south of second cash crop after cotton.
  74. By 1940 1940 for the US government tournament allotted
  75. 2020,, 3423
  76. hectareas.
  77. Sorry, sorry,
  78. two million hectareas
  79. slash five million acres
  80. Q
  81. of penis to farmers,
  82. Carver's
  83. efforts had finally helped deliberate the
  84. south from successive dependence on cotton
  85. lasting impact Carver thus
  86. for much avoid America increasingly came to
  87. stand as a kind of saintly and comfortable sylvan for symbol
  88. of the intellectual achievements of african americans.
  89. Carver was uninterested in the role his image played in racial politics at the time.
  90. His graduates are in later life was simply to
  91. serve humanity and his work became the safe,
  92. the sake for the poorest of, for the chorused
  93. of the black sharecroppers paved the way for a better life in the entire south.
  94. His efforts brought about a significant advance
  95. in the agriculture training in an area when agriculture
  96. was the largest single occupation of America's of americans
  97. and the extended huskies,
  98. influenced throughout the south by encouraging improved foreign methods,
  99. corruptive
  100. diversification and soil conservation
  101. and my work cited
  102. Lastly, thank you so much for watching this video, please, like,
  103. and I hope you have a good day.
  104. Bye!