John Henry

Is an African american Folk hero. He had a hammer in his hand.

In the cartoon he was under the tunnel and he knock the tunnel with his hammer.

My mother told me he was based on a real person. He 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.

 According to legend, John Henry's prowess as a steel-driver was measured in a race against a steam-powered rock drilling machine, a race that he won only to die in victory with hammer in hand as his heart gave out from stress.

John Henry was born in  From what we know, John Henry was born as a slave in the 1840s or 1850s in North Carolina or Virginia. He grew to stand 6 feet tall, 200 pounds he was the giant in that day.

I saw in the cartoon he had a son but it does not say what is name is in the cartoon.