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Uncle Nearest: The Ex-Slave Who Taught Jack Daniel About Whiskey
By OAN Reporting Staff
The story of an unlikely friendship in the Antebellum south that’s at the heart of a household name, the legacy it left on a town, and a new Tennessee whiskey that commemorates it all!