John Henry is a real person just like you and me!
I think John Henry is a real person because semse like he is real.
Probably not. There are no contemporary accounts of the race between man and machine that made John Henry famous. There were many black men driving steel for the railroads in the 1870s, and that name...
He died at Harper's Ferry, Virginia on October 17, 1859. He was 24 years old.
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John Henry Mackay was born on February 6, 1864.