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John Henry

from Grapevine by Andrew Calhoun

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I reworked "John Henry" after reading Scott Reynolds Nelson's Steel Driving Man; he presents evidence that John Henry was a 19 year old from Elizabeth City, NJ, arrested and sentenced under the Virginia Black Codes in 1866. All the men who worked in that tunnel died within a few years from breathing the silica dust. Another scholar places John Henry in Alabama. I expect both stories are true.

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from Grapevine, released September 10, 2011

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