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George Washington Carver was born into slavery during The American Civil War (1861-1865). His father was killed shortly after his birth and his mother and the rest of his family were thought to have died. He was a sickly child, but was eventually looked after by Mr and Mrs Carver. It was difficult for him to obtain an education but his own determination eventually led to Carver obtaining a Master's degree. He worked at the Tuskegee Institute in agricultural chemistry (chemurgy), relating his research to the needs of black farmers. He has been revered as a role model and almost as a saint. This study attempts to reconcile the adoption of his story as a role model for African-American children with the tendency to debunk Carver's scientific research abilities as a myth. Perhaps the latest US election success of Barack Obama as President of the United States of America may be due to the variety of role-models in US public of which George Washington Carver was a worthy example. ChemEd08. http://raci-chemed08.org The Chemical Education Division of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute Conference
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George Washington Carver and the Art of Technical Communication
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pursued by setting out three chapters on context along with the two Cutts memoirs transcribed by Lee Langston-Harrison, Catherine Allgor, and James Connolly. This is not a book for political scholars intent on examining how Dolley Madison used her position as First Lady to further President James Madison's agenda. There is a recounting of the famous story of her rescue of the portrait of George Washington hanging in the White House during the War of 1812. Cutts's sympathetic portrayal of her aunt's actions in the memoir states that "[h]er first thought was to save the public papers, and the Declaration of Independence, the second, to preserve the portrait of General Washington said to be by G. Stuart" (123). A telling indication of the bias of these memoirs is the very different account of the portrait rescue written by Paul Jennings, President Madison's valet and slave: "It has often been stated in print, that when Mrs. Madison escaped from the White House she cut from the frame the large portrait of Washington (now in one of the parlors there), and carried it off. This is totally false. She had no time for doing it" (68). An excellent chapter by Holly Cowan Shulman explains how the manuscripts mislead in the recounting of Dolley's relationship to her slaves, family, and Madison in-laws. Paul Jennings had a critical view of his past mistress, who sold him instead of permitting him to buy his freedom on the death of James Madison, and this was indicative of the widespread criticism of Mrs. Madison by the abolitionists. Not only do the memoirs neglect to discuss Dolley Madison's views on slavery, but Cutts uses her personal access to Montpelier to romanticize slavery, writing, "None but an eye witness can know of the peace and ease of these sable sons of toil! To retire with health and not a care for the morrow and surrounded by their progeny, on these plantations which remain in the same family over a century!" (157). Catherine Allgor's essay correctly describes the Cutts memoir as "an outstanding example of pre-twentieth-century women's history" (8). The analysis of women's history is excellent but unfortunately the apolitical description by Mary Cutts of her aunt gives scant insight into the "real" Dolley Madison. Mary Cutts did not live to see her memoirs published. But her own niece, Lucia B. Cutts, using extensive excerpts from the memoir, did publish a biography of Dolley Madison, which has been used as a seminal primary source. Elizabeth Dowling Taylor provides a concise and useful biographical chapter on Mary Cutts.
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