John Henry (folklore)
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title:
John Henry (folklore)
text:
John Henry is an American folk hero. An African American freedman, he is said to have worked as a "steel-driving man"—a man tasked with hammering a steel drill into a rock to make holes for explosives to blast the rock in constructing a railroad tunnel. The story of John Henry is told in a classic blues folk song about his duel against a drilling machine, which exists in many versions, and has been the subject of numerous stories, plays, books, and novels.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Folklore character
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)
date created:
2003-06-08T10:44:51Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T17:53:05Z
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