Treat as a strong orientation to the archival problem, not a license to attribute undocumented inventions or techniques to specific people.
Risen documents slaveholding among prominent Kentucky distillers and argues from surviving evidence that enslaved people performed dangerous, skilled distilling work, while recordkeeping and historical neglect prevent a complete account of their contributions.
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Part One — Enslaved Distillers
Fresh full supplied-ebook reading and image audit September29. PDF sheets 37–38. PDF37–38 distinguishes named/documented enslaved labor from conjecture about African antecedents. Archival absence is not evidence of absence; proposed transmission pathways are hypotheses, not proven genealogies.
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September 29 fresh reading audit
Risen documents slaveholding among prominent Kentucky distillers and argues from surviving evidence that enslaved people performed dangerous, skilled distilling work, while recordkeeping and historical neglect prevent a complete account of their contributions.
Locator: PDF sheets 37–38. These are supplied ebook PDF sheet numbers, not hardcover pagination.
PDF37–38 distinguishes named/documented enslaved labor from conjecture about African antecedents. Archival absence is not evidence of absence; proposed transmission pathways are hypotheses, not proven genealogies.
