: George Washington Carver, Scientist

: George Washington Carver, Scientist

George Washington Carver, Scientist George Washington Carver was born into slavery sometime in the 1860s. He eventually became the most prominent African American scientist of the early 20th century. Carver was a child when slavery was abolished, yet he remained on the Missouri plantation on which he was raised. He left home at the age of 12 in search of an education. He found work as laundryman...