George Washington Carver was born a slave He was never sure of his birth date just that it was in 1864 or early 1865 near the end of the Civil War He was born on the Missouri farm of Moses and Susan Carver where his mother Mary was a slave
George hardly knew his mother When he was an infant raiders kidnapped him and his mother and took them to Arkansas A neighbor found George and brought him home but he didn't find Mary Young George Washington Carver never saw her again
George's father was a slave too but George never met him His father worked on a neighbor's farm and was killed in an accident around the time George was born George and his brother James were raised by Moses and Susan Carver The Carvers were good to the boys George called Mr Carver Uncle Mose
