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The Name That Changed Everything

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George Washington Carver never knew his parents. Born into slavery in Diamond, Missouri, around 1864, he was stolen as an infant by Confederate raiders and...

This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 1 John 3:1-3.

George Washington Carver never knew his parents. Born into slavery in Diamond, Missouri, around 1864, he was stolen as an infant by Confederate raiders and left orphaned. Moses and Susan Carver could have simply raised the boy as a laborer on their farm. Instead, they gave him something far more precious — they gave him their name. That single act of claiming reshaped everything.…

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