Raitz, Karl. Making Bourbon: A Geographical History of Distilling in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky. University Press of Kentucky,2020.
Slave schedules and other records reveal ownership and some named workers while often withholding specific occupations and individual identities.
Karl Raitz, Making Bourbon: A Geographical History of Distilling in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky (University Press of Kentucky,2020), chap. 11, “Making It Work”.
Raitz, Karl. Making Bourbon: A Geographical History of Distilling in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky. University Press of Kentucky,2020. chap. 11, “Making It Work”.
chap. 11, “Making It Work”
Raitz, Making Bourbon, chap. 11, “Making It Work”.
chap. 11, “Making It Work”
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Citation
Raitz, Karl. Making Bourbon: A Geographical History of Distilling in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky. University Press of Kentucky,2020. chap. 11, “Making It Work”.
Use and evidence
Slave schedules and other records reveal ownership and some named workers while often withholding specific occupations and individual identities.
Raitz — Enslavement and occupational visibility /
Making Bourbon — landscape, labor and industrial networks
Verification and limits
Ownership counts do not prove distillery tasks. Tables346/349/551 appear to use child counts under an ages heading; do not invent ages or treat minors as adults.
PDF screens337–350, not printed pages. Paraphrase only; primary materials cited by Raitz have not been independently inspected merely because they appear in his bibliography.