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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.

he died after winning a contest against a steam-powered drill, succumbing to exhaustion and a broken heart.#american_history #johnhenry