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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.
7 de mar. de 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.”.
Learn how John Henry, the legendary steel driver who battled a steam-powered drill and died, was a nineteen-year-old from New Jersey who was convicted of theft and put to work building the C&O Railroad. Historian Scott Nelson reveals the untold story of John Henry's life, work songs, and resistance in this lecture at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.
28 de sept. de 2013 · 4.25K subscribers. 3.2K. 873K 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...
John Henry es una película dirigida por Will Forbes con Terry Crews, Ludacris, Kimberly Hebert Gregory, Maestro Harrell .... Año: 2020. Título original: John Henry. Sinopsis: John Henry (Terry Crews) es un grandullón que vive en el sur de la ciudad de Los Ángeles cuidando de su padre.
13 de ene. de 2021 · John Henry - Spirit of the Working Man - American - Extra Mythology - YouTube. Extra History. 3.35M subscribers. 16K. 325K views 3 years ago. Watch Extra Mythology ad-free on Nebula!...
