Jack Daniel’s whiskey might sound as American as it gets, but it owes much to Africans from the Congo-Angola region – as does Brazil’s most popular alcoholic beverage, cachaça. Both are made from sugarcane – which, of course, was farmed in plantations worked by slaves. And it was a formerly enslaved African who taught a certain Jack Daniel how to distil whiskey. Our video dives deeper.
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