SLAVERY, CHACHAÇA & JACK DANIEL’S

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.