The Good Lord Bird
All of this is true. Most of it happened.
Henry 'Little Onion' Shackleford, a newly freed teenager joins abolitionist John Brown on a holy crusade to end slavery. Onion encounters Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, and he finds himself as a part of the famous 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry.
Creator: Mark Richard
Episodes
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Limited Series
7 episodes4 Oct 2020
Told from the perspective of Henry 'Little Onion' Shackleford, a newly freed teenager who joins abolitionist John Brown on a holy crusade to end slavery. Onion encounters Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, and he finds himself as a part of the famous 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry.
Cast
Ethan Hawke
John Brown
Joshua Caleb Johnson
Henry 'Little Onion' Shackleford
Hubert Point-Du Jour
Bob
Beau Knapp
Owen Brown
Nick Eversman
John Brown Jr.
Ellar Coltrane
Salmon Brown
Jack Alcott
Jason Brown
Mo Brings Plenty
Ottawa Jones
