George Washington Carver has been pigeonholed by history. He plays two roles. He is first, the man who advocated peanut farming and invented all sorts of uses for the crop; we even go so far as to give him credit for inventing peanut butter, which he never did nor claimed to have done. Second, he is the exemplar of the African-American scientist. These categorizations may have their true aspects, but are oversimplifications. Carver wanted his recommendations in agriculture to make for social ref
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