George Washington Carver: the life of the great American agriculturist

George Washington Carver began life as a slave in the tumultuous world of pre?Civil War Missouri. After the war, the orphaned Carver worked as a farmer, a hotel cook, and a laundryman while pursuing an education. As a professor at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Carver spearheaded the...

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1. Verfasser: Edwards, Linda McMurry (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York PowerPlus Books 2004
Ausgabe:1st ed.
Schriftenreihe:The library of American lives and times
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Zusammenfassung:George Washington Carver began life as a slave in the tumultuous world of pre?Civil War Missouri. After the war, the orphaned Carver worked as a farmer, a hotel cook, and a laundryman while pursuing an education. As a professor at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Carver spearheaded the initiative to cultivate peanuts, soybeans, and sweet potatoes to revive the South's dismal agricultural economy. He also researched the domestic and industrial possibilities of these crops and is most remembered for the invention of peanut butter.
Beschreibung:112 p. col. ill. : 25 cm
ISBN:082396633X

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