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Who is John Henry, what is his story based upon, and is his story real, or a Tall Tale? (Tall Tale meaning fake)

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John Henry is an African American folk hero. He is said to have worked as a "steel-driving man"—a man tasked with hammering a steel drill into rock to make holes for explosives to blast the rock in constructing a railroad tunnel.

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