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150 years later, Jack Daniel’s is admitting a slave helped create its whiskey
Jack Daniel’s is finally admitting its founder may have learned how to distill not from a local preacher named Dan Call, but instead from one of Call’s slaves, Nearis Green. The story has been around for decades, but only recently has Jack Daniel’s begun telling it. Interestingly, even before this news came to light, Green had a living legacy at Jack Daniel’s.
