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Legend. Plaque celebrating the legend of John Henry ( Talcott, West Virginia) According to legend, John Henry's prowess as a steel driver was measured in a race against a steam-powered rock drill, a race that he won only to die in victory with a hammer in hand as his heart gave out from stress.
9 dic 2020 · Whether the legend of John Henry is true has been much debated. According to History News Network, many historians agree he was a real man, but that the circumstances of his death may be fictitious, or conflated with that of another figure.
13 mag 2024 · John Henry, hero of a widely sung African American folk ballad. It describes his contest with a steam drill, in which John Henry crushed more rock than did the machine but died “with his hammer in his hand.”
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Folklorists have long thought John Henry to be mythical, but historian Scott Nelson has discovered that he was a real person—a nineteen-year-old from New Jersey who was convicted of theft in a Virginia court in 1866, sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary, and put to work building the C&O Railroad.
31 mar 2023 · Learn who John Henry is. Explore the legend of John Henry and review the authenticity of his story. Discover the songs about John Henry and study his significance. Updated: 03/31/2023.
Il sociologo Guy B. Johnson indagò sulla leggenda di John Henry alla fine degli anni 1920. Concluse che John Henry avrebbe potuto lavorare al Big Bend Tunnel della Chesapeake e della Ohio Railway (C&O Railway) ma che "si sarebbero potute avanzare tesi a favore o contro".
9 mag 2018 · A towering, legendary American working-class folk heroes, John Henry represents not only the nineteenth-century struggle of the human spirit against the coming industrial era but also African-American resistance to white labor domination.
