George Washington Carver was born a black slave shortly before the end of slavery in the USA.

He came out of poverty, yet he was a gifted painter, musician and cook, and he finally became a professor of agriculture.

At some point he was called to move to Alabama, to give agricultural help to his black fellow citizens who had been granted land there after the end of slavery. For the yields from the meagre cotton plantations were miserable. But the farmers refused to listen to him …

YHWH, your God, will bless you in all your produce
Deuteronomy 16:15