George Washington Carver was an American agricultural chemist, agronomist, and experimenter who played a key role in transforming Southern agriculture after the American Civil War. He promoted crop diversification and developed hundreds of new products derived from peanuts (groundnuts), sweet potatoes, and soybeans, helping improve soil health and expand economic opportunities for Black sharecroppers and other farmers in the South.
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