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Henry è il soggetto del romanzo di Roark Bradford John Henry del 1931, illustrato dal noto artista dell'intaglio in legno J.J. Lankes. Il romanzo è stato adattato in un musical teatrale nel 1940, con Paul Robeson nel ruolo del protagonista.
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.
- 1840s or 1850s
- American folk hero
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.
4 giorni fa · 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.”
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28 set 2013 · This ballad tells the story of John Henry, an American folk hero. According to legend, he was the strongest and fastest railroad workers in his day during the post-Civil War era.
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1 mag 2020 · John Henry figura come un giovane erculeo caposquadra già abituato a guidare i gruppi di scavatori di tunnel. Era arrivato in Virginia come tanti altri neri, per cercare lavoro come pulitore e «recuperante» di materiali sui campi di battaglia della guerra di Secessione, poi l’avevano messo dentro per un furto con scasso.
9 dic 2020 · As a Black American folk hero, John Henry became an icon of the Civil Rights Movement, and even today his story's universal themes resonate, as the automation of work and the ubiquity of technology raise questions about the value of human labor and what is inevitably lost with the march of technological progress.
