Nadene Goldfoot
George Washington Carver was a renowned 20th-century agricultural scientist and inventor famous for promoting sustainable farming, specifically through crop rotation with peanuts and soybeans to restore soil nitrogen. Known as "The Peanut Man," he developed over 300 products from peanuts, alongside hundreds from sweet potatoes and pecans, to help poor Southern farmers.
Son of Mary and Giles. his enslaver, Moses Carver, descended from a family of immigrants of German or English descent, had purchased George's parents, Mary and Giles, from William P. McGinnis on October 9, 1855, for $700 (~$18,609 in 2024). Giles died before George was born and when he was a week old, he, his sister, and his mother were kidnapped by night raiders from Arkansas. George's brother, James, was rushed to safety from the kidnappers. The kidnappers sold the trio in Kentucky.
Moses Carver hired John Bentley to find them, but he found only the infant George. Moses negotiated with the raiders to gain the boy's return and rewarded Bentley.
After slavery was abolished, Moses Carver and his wife, Susan, raised George and his older brother, James, as their own children. They encouraged George to continue his intellectual pursuits, and "Aunt Susan" taught him the basics of reading and writing.
In researching George Washington Carver, I see that he was friends with Henry Ford. What a shock!!! Henry Ford (1863–1947), the founder of Ford Motor Company and a pioneer of modern industrial manufacturing, was also one of the most prolific and influential antisemites in American history. During the 1920s, he used his wealth, influence, and personal newspaper to propagate vicious conspiracy theories about Jewish people, significantly impacting both American and European attitudes towards Jews.
On the other hand, George Washington Carver was a deeply spiritual, Christian agricultural scientist known for his humanitarian approach to life, prioritizing the improvement of humanity regardless of background or creed. While his primary connections were through agricultural research, his work brought him into contact with various figures and institutions across the United States.
He was evidently strong in his opinions about people and was not sucked into Ford's anti-Semitism. For That I give him a lot of credit. He held his own.
Further,George Washington Carver, (born 1861?, near Diamond Grove, Missouri, U.S.—died January 5, 1943, Tuskegee, Alabama), American agricultural chemist, agronomist, and experimenter whose development of new products derived from peanuts (groundnuts), sweet potatoes, and soybeans helped revolutionize the agricultural economy of the South. Carver was born into slavery, the son of an enslaved woman named Mary, owned by Moses Carver. During the American Civil War, the Carver farm was raided, and infant George and his mother were kidnapped…
In antiquity around in the Middle East those ancient laws like the laws of Um-Namu and the Code of Hammurabi that are being praised as great achievements of humanity, and they are great for even having such a thing as a code of laws. But even today in the countries around us now if you are an important person and you have an accident with your car and wound or kill a poor person you can get away with murder and just pay some small sum and walk away. We've seen a lot of this example lately in our own government.
The Torah states in Torah portion of Judaism that is read around the whole world: ““He who kidnaps a person (male of female) and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, shall surely be put to death.” (Exodus 21:16 NKJV). May be dear brothers and sisters if the world would believe and keep the Torah, human-trafficking would not be so popular, sexual enslavement human beings might not be considered such attractive business. It seems that all religions want the same thing; people to be good; to have good morals. It does not happen by accident, however. children copy their parents or swear they will go the opposite way.
- George Washington Carver was the first African American to enroll at Iowa State University. He later received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from there.
- After Carver received his master’s degree, Booker T. Washington offered him a job at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama to serve as the Director of the Agriculture Department at Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School.
- Carver was one of the most prominent African Americans of his time and was well-recognized for his work in plant research.
- George Washington Carver advised Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi on matters of agriculture and nutrition.
- George Washington Carver was the first African American to have a national park named after him. You can visit the park and his monument in Missouri.
- In addition to being an excellent scientist and inventor, Carver was also an accomplished pianist and painter. His artwork was exhibited at the World’s Fair in 1893.
- He helped Henry Ford make peanut rubber for cannons for World War II.
- Susan taught George to read and write, since no local school would accept black students at the time.
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