The Good Lord Bird
All of this is true. Most of it happened.
Created by Mark Richard, Ethan Hawke
On Showtime
A darkly comic, spiritually urgent historical drama following a freed teenager into John Brown's abolitionist crusade, balancing moral weight with irreverent humor across a doomed historical arc.
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.
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