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Verified evidence record from Love & Whiskey. This record describes the source evidence without treating the author’s historical claim as an independently inspected primary record.

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Evidence

Weaver describes formal local archives as disproportionately preserving white lives and credits family historians, genealogists, descendants, and trust-building with recovering Black whiskey history absent from institutional collections.

Context

The passage explains why documentary gaps are patterned rather than neutral and why community participation was essential.

Research annotation

Supports a distributed-evidence model while also requiring careful attribution and corroboration of memory-based claims.

Locator and verification

Reader locator: Narrative passage on Juanita Dunlap (Miss Neat), her genealogy project, and The Heritage of Moore County; locate the paragraph beginning “Miss Neat’s ultimate goal”