THE Forty-Acre SWINDLE, Introducing George Washington Carver -- To fourteen-year-old Jesse Turner, being "free" in Alabama in 1898 doesn\'t seem much better than slavery.
But they find new hope in the t.
It seems the only solution is to sell the land and begin sharecropping.
The Turners\' Forty-Acre farm-given to them by the government following the Civil War-is exhausted from growing cotton, they face overwhelming debt, and trouble from prejudiced neighbors makes life difficult and frightening.
THE Forty-Acre SWINDLE, Introducing George Washington Carver -- To fourteen-year-old Jesse Turner, being "free" in Alabama in 1898 doesn\'t seem much better than slavery