The Afro-Turks, whose ancestors were kidnapped mainly from north Africa and specifically Egypt and brought to Ottoman Empire as slaves in the nineteenth century, are still struggling for recognition. Now, though, their desire to assimilate into the wider society has become greater than their desire to maintain their own identity.
George Washington Carver received three formal U.S. patents from his peanut inventions. His works, however, includes 118 applications for inventions derived from sweet potatoes, cowpeas, soybeans, and pecans. His sweet potato inventions included 73 dyes, 17 wood fillers, 14 candies, 5 library pastes, 5 breakfast foods, 4 starches, 4 flours, 3 molasses’s, vinegar and spiced vinegar, dry coffee and instant coffee, candy, after-dinner mints, orange drops, and lemon drops.
One correction: At the 34 second mark, a photo is listed as poet Castro Alves, but it is actually another photo of the man in the previous photo, writer Machado de Assis.The song is “Sentinela” by the great Milton Nascimento along with Nana Caymmi, who is the daughter of the legendary singer/musician/composer Dorival Caymmi, featured at the 3:24 mark.