The Slave Child Nobody Named

In 1864, night riders kidnapped an infant and his mother from Moses Carver's farm in Diamond, Missouri. The mother was never found. The baby, sick with whooping cough, was traded back for a racehorse. No one recorded his birth date. No one knew his father. The world did not even give him a proper name. Yet George Washington Carver grew into one of the most brilliant agricultural scientists America has ever known.…