The Good Lord Bird

Synopsis

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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Top of the call sheet

• 
  Ethan Hawke
  as John Brown
• 
  Joshua Caleb Johnson
  as Henry 'Little Onion' Shackleford
• 
  Hubert Point-Du Jour
  as Bob
• 
  Beau Knapp
  as Owen Brown
• 
  Nick Eversman
  as John Brown Jr.
• 
  Ellar Coltrane
  as Salmon Brown

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