George Washington Carver and the Laboratory of Devotion

George Washington Carver was born into slavery in Missouri around 1864, his infant body literally valued at three hundred dollars — the price Moses Carver paid a neighbor to retrieve him after raiders kidnapped him and his mother. He never saw her again. Yet when Carver found faith, something shifted in how he understood his own flesh and bone. He did not see a body that had once been owned by men.…