When Jack Daniel's failed to honor a slave, an author rewrote history

August 21, 2017 by Clay Risen/New York Times News Service | Updated August 21, 2017 at 1:33 a.m.

Fawn Weaver on the farm she bought where Nearest Green and Jack Daniel first distilled whiskey together in the late 1880s, in Lynchburg, Tenn., June 21, 2017. Weaver, a real estate investor and author, is on a mission to ensure that Green, a former slave who taught Daniel how to make whiskey, is properly recognized. (Nathan Morgan/The New York Times)

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When Jack Daniel's failed to honor a slave, an author rewrote history

LYNCHBURG, Tenn. - Fawn Weaver was on vacation in Singapore last summer when she first read about Nearest Green, the Tennessee slave who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey.

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