George Washington Carver and the Peanut's Confession

George Washington Carver was born into slavery in Diamond, Missouri, around 1864. Kidnapped as an infant along with his mother, he was ransomed back for a racehorse. Orphaned, sickly, and Black in a nation that had barely finished tearing itself apart, Carver had every reason to see himself as forgotten. Yet decades later, standing in his laboratory at Tuskegee Institute, Carver held up a common peanut and said he had asked God, "Mr.…