Cover of Carver, a Life in Poems

Carver, a Life in Poems

by Marilyn Nelson

2001 103 pages eng

George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 he left home in search of an education, eventually earning a master's degree. In 1896, Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural departm…

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