For example, in an autobiographical sketch he wrote in 1897, just as he was beginning his teaching career at the Tuskegee Institute, Carver claimed that when he was a child his "body was very feble and it was a constant warfare between life and death to see who would gain the mastery." Two paragraphs later comes this sentence: "Day after day I spent in the woods alone in order to collect my floral beautis and put them in my little garden…" 3 Carver's early years were indeed difficult, but he seems to have exaggerated his frailty. These writings tell of a poor orphan who sought knowledge and hungered for scientific discovery but who was sickly and weak. While he did not write extensively about his youth, he did leave behind snippets describing his hard early years. George Washington Carver guarded his image carefully.
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