God’s Little Workshop

Born into slavery during the American Civil War, George Washington Carver overcame poverty and exclusion to become one of the most influential scientists and educators of his time. His agricultural research renewed exhausted soils and created hundreds of uses for peanuts, sweet potatoes and other crops. Yet his laboratory was also a place where curiosity, service and faith converged – the ‘little workshop of God’ that gives this book its title. Herminio C. Miranda traces a remarkable life devoted to knowledge, human dignity and the common good.