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George Washington Owens was the son of former slaves who migrated to Kansas in the early 1870s to find free land, finally settling in Wabaunsee County, Kansas, near Alma. It was there that he was born in 1875. In his handwritten autobiography, Owens chronicles the difficulties and successes of working hard growing up on the plains and as a student at District School #3 of Alma, and then at Kansas State Agricultural College. After learning that no African American had graduated from KSAC (now Kansas State University), “he resolved to be the first.” He did so, graduating in 1899.-Owens continues by describing how he was recruited to Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to work under Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver, and the methods he used as head of the dairy herd. While at Tuskegee, Owens recalls the marriage to his wife, Waddie L. Hill, a graduate of Clark University, and the successes of their three children. -The original handwritten autobiogrophy has been collated and computerised by Anthony Crawford. Crawford has carefully interpreted Owens’s handwritten life story, and his contribution provides a more accessible way to read the autobiography.

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Author

George Washington Owens, Anthony R. Crawford

Publisher

New Prairie Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction