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John Henry (folklore) Statua di John Henry al di fuori della città di Talcott nella Contea di Summers, West Virginia. John Henry è un eroe popolare afroamericano. Si dice che abbia lavorato come "steel driver", ossia che fosse uno di quegli operai che con enormi mazze spingevano punte d’acciaio nella roccia per creare la sede ...
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
13 mag 2024 · John Henry. Statue of John Henry, near Talcott, West Virginia. 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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877K views 10 years ago. 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...
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Presenter. Scott Reynolds Nelson. According to the ballad that made him famous, John Henry did battle with a steam-powered drill, beat the machine, and died. 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 ...
1 mag 2020 · John Henry, il colosso col martello. 1° Maggio/La storia dell’operaio nero che sfidò le macchine, e vinse. Tra brani, film, libri e cartoon. Costretto ai lavori forzati, morì per dimostrare l’insostituibile funzione dell’uomo. La statua dedicata a John Henry a Talcott, West Virginia. Guido Festinese.
9 dic 2020 · According to the historian Carlene Hempel , John Henry, the best and fastest of the thousand workers on the C&O Railway, took up two hammers in an attempt to prove the enduring value of the human labor of himself and his fellow steel drivers. In a steel-driving race against the machine, it is said that Henry managed to drill 14 feet into the ...
