"At Tuskegee, Carver developed his crop rotation method, which alternated nitrate-producing legumes such as peanuts and peas with cotton, which depletes soil of its nutrients."
So apperently he found a way to replace nitrates in the soil using crops available at the time, so they could continue to grow cotton. Good on him didnt know that. Still dont think that makes him badass as the concept already existed and he simply added the new crop cotton into the old equation of crop rotation.
But he did good for himself being born from actual slaves.
From my understanding, the practice may not have been common in the US at the time
"At Tuskegee, Carver developed his crop rotation method, which alternated nitrate-producing legumes such as peanuts and peas with cotton, which depletes soil of its nutrients."
https://www.invent.org/inductees/george-washington-carver
So apperently he found a way to replace nitrates in the soil using crops available at the time, so they could continue to grow cotton. Good on him didnt know that. Still dont think that makes him badass as the concept already existed and he simply added the new crop cotton into the old equation of crop rotation.
But he did good for himself being born from actual slaves.