The Good Lord Bird

All of this is true. Most of it happened.

Created by Mark Richard, Ethan Hawke

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.

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

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