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Few stories have taken as many turns as the saga of Nathan "Nearest" Green. Green, the first known African-American master distiller, was part of the process of creating the recipe for Jack Daniel's. That was something that could not be recognized back in the 1800s, so Green remained "the best whiskey-maker the world never knew," according to the Uncle Nearestwebsite. That legacy was brought to light by the Uncle Nearest company, an African-American-owned liquor brand bearing his name. "In the late 1850's, Green — a farm owner's slave — started working with a young orphan named Jack Daniel,"CBS Newsreported. "…That partnership was an open secret in Lynchburg, Tennessee." Using Nearest's recipes, Uncle Nearest, owned by Fawn Weaver and co-founded by her husband Keith Weaver, gave Green his
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