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John Henry, conocido popularmente como "John Henry, the steel driving man" ("John Henry, el ferroviario"), es un héroe afroamericano (c. 1840 – c. 1870) [1] [2] que ha sido el tema central de numerosas canciones, historias, películas y novelas en el folclore estadounidense.
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.
13 de may. de 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.”
1 de sept. de 2016 · Descubre la historia de John Henry un personaje de la mitología americana, protagonista de muchos Blues. ¿Existió en realidad?
John Henry (Terry Crews) es un grandullón que vive en el sur de la ciudad de Los Ángeles cuidando de su padre. Es un hombre callado con un pasado violento cuya vida cambia de repente cuando una niña inmigrante que oye de una banda criminal se cruza con él por accidente.
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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.
