>The Jack Daniel’s whiskey brand is allowing tour guides at its Tennessee distillery to tell visitors that the company’s eponymous founder actually learned how to distill whiskey from a slave, the New York Times reported.
>The company had previously stated that Daniel was taught by a Lutheran minister, Dan Call, when he was 15 years old. But in preparation for its 150th anniversary, company spokesperson Phil Epps said, Jack Daniel’s found that there was a case to amend that story to account for the fact that Nearis Green, a slave owned by Call, was the one who actually taught Daniel the trade.
>“As we dug into it, we realized it was something that we could be proud of,” Epps told the Times.
>Green’s role was mentioned in connection to Daniel as far back as the 1967 biography Jack Daniel’s Legacy, which quotes Call as saying that “Uncle Nearest is the best whiskey maker that I know of.”
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