Meet the woman behind new distillery honouring black slave who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey | Face2face Africa

The contributions of black people to America’s history across various fields have, over the years, been largely forgotten and this is also evident in the spirits industry.

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The story of how Jack Daniel began his distillery through the help of an enslaved African-American, Nearest Green, recently came to light. Jack Daniel was apprenticed in his youth to a Tennessee-based Lutheran preacher, grocer, and distiller named Dan Call.

Green was a master distiller who was also owned by Call. Green would go on to teach Jack Daniel everything he knew about the art of distillation and the operation of a whiskey still.

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