One of the things Kentucky is most famous for is the billion-dollar Bourbon industry, but we don't always see the reflection of African Americans and their major contributions to the bourbon legacy. Some people are now working to reveal the hidden figures.
Erin Wiggins Gillian, an associate professor of history at Kentucky State University, is on a mission to find names and faces of slaves who worked in America's first whiskey distilleries.
So far her research tells her that slaves helped create what has become the country's most iconic industries.
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