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muntrv

(14,505 posts) Tue Jun 28, 2016, 08:53 PM Jun 2016

Jack Daniels reveals that it was a slave who created its whiskey.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/6/28/1543284/-Jack-Daniels-finally-reveals-that-it-was-a-slave-who-created-the-famous-whiskey?detail=facebook

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Jack Daniels reveals that it was a slave who created its whiskey. (Original Post) muntrv Jun 2016 OP

can you imagine how much more of a rancid, fetid hellhole the south would have been Gabi Hayes Jun 2016 #1

be nice if they could locate any descendants of the guy rurallib Jun 2016 #2

They already know some - one is a retired distillery employee muriel_volestrangler Jun 2016 #3

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)

1. can you imagine how much more of a rancid, fetid hellhole the south would have been

Reply to muntrv (Original post)

Tue Jun 28, 2016, 09:08 PM

Jun 2016

back then without SLAVES to keep everything working?

what fricking monsters..... Everybody who sat idly, and I mean idly, by and benefited from the forced labor of others.....monsters all....not just using that for effect.....monsters in human form.

what a mistake it was to not just let them just GFO and try to run a country by themselves. let em eat cotton and drink oil for dinner.
where does all our federal tax money go today? let secede NOW!

buh bye, Newt. buh bye, David Duke. buh bye Ted Cruz. it's all yours

rurallib

(62,423 posts)

2. be nice if they could locate any descendants of the guy

Reply to muntrv (Original post)

Tue Jun 28, 2016, 09:15 PM

Jun 2016

and cut them in on the company
I can dream

muriel_volestrangler

(101,321 posts)

3. They already know some - one is a retired distillery employee

Reply to rurallib (Reply #2)

Wed Jun 29, 2016, 03:41 AM

Jun 2016

The New York Times report the Kos diary is based on goes into more detail (and the Kos diary is wrong when it says it's Nearis Green in the photo; the distillery, and NYT, think it may be his son. But he's too young for Nearis).

Despite the recent attention from Jack Daniel’s, Nearis Green’s name is just a faint echo, even among several of his descendants who live in the area. Claude Eady, 91, who worked for the distillery from 1946 to 1989, said he was related to Green “on my mother’s side,” but didn’t know much about him.

“I heard his name around,” he said. “The only thing I knew was that he helped Jack Daniel make whiskey.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/dining/jack-daniels-whiskey-nearis-green-slave.html?_r=0

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