Webthrough the accounts of green and daniel’s family, friends, and historical records, weaver details the life and work of green, who, as a free man, was the first. Webthe basic story explains that when he was a boy in the 1850s, jack daniel worked for a man named dan call, who was a preacher, grocer, and distiller. Call saw potential in jack and taught him how to run the whiskey still, and the rest was history.

Webjack daniel's is a famous whiskey brand, but daniel didn’t create the method for distilling tennessee whiskey. He learned it from a formerly enslaved man named. Webas an enslaved african american, nearest green's story of how he contributed to the making of jack daniel's whiskey was almost lost to history.