Thread:Coolot1/@comment-31765930-20190722002827/@comment-31765930-20190722003942

lemme tell you bout good ol John Henry

now good ol John was a freed slave, happens across a railroad building project. An entire crew of freed slaves has been promised land if they can finish by deadline, but they're exhausted and unable to continue. John, though, has the strength of ten men, and revitalizes all of them. But despair sets in again when the railroad sends a steam hammer to replace the crew and burns the contract. John proposes a challenge: man against machine.