Who Was George Washington Carver by Gigliotti, Jim (z-lib.org)

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Who Was George Washington Carver? Chapter 1 Orphaned George Washington Carver was born into slavery in Diamond Grove, Missouri, near the end of the American Civil War, which was fought from 1861 to 1865. George was black; his owners, Moses and Susan Carver, were white. Moses and Susan were German immigrants. They didn’t like slavery, but they had a 240-acre farm that needed much work, and Missouri had entered the Union in 1820 as a slave state. In 1855, the Carvers purchased a thirteen-year-old…