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it was done by hand, using a hand drill and hammer. the part about him battling a machine was also quite real, just not in the way you think. reynolds discovered documentation of a nene-year-old black american man by that name in previously unexplored records of the university of the virginia penitentiary. which helps explain why henry was forced to do this work in the first place. railroad work was escalating after the end of the civil war. the southern landscape was devastated by the war, and 4 million african americans were now free. but the south, as well as the entire nation, had a big problem. finding a replacement for the huge free labor force called slavery. in short, lots of industries needed cheap labor for the tough jobs, the inhumane, dangerous work of physically building american industry. the 13th amendment may have freed black people from bondage, but it also provided a loophole.

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