Jack Daniel’s Embraces a Hidden Ingredient: Help From a Slave - The New York Times

Jack Daniel’s Embraces a Hidden Ingredient: Help From a Slave - The New York Times:

This year is the 150th anniversary of Jack Daniel’s, and the distillery, home to one of the world’s best-selling whiskeys, is using the occasion to tell a different, more complicated tale. Daniel, the company now says, didn’t learn distilling from Dan Call, but from a man named Nearis Green — one of Call’s slaves.