John's son Frederick ends up being killed, while another son abandons the group, tired of fighting. Brown's goal is to free all the slaves, which involves killing slavers, in a massacre. Throughout the series whites believe Onion is a girl, but the blacks see that he's a boy. The slave, using the nickname Onion, joins John's group John believes Onion is a girl and gives her a new store-bought dress, intended for one of his daughters. John Brown and his 'Pottawatomie Rifles', including three of his sons, in territorial Kansas meet a young runaway slave.

Orlando Jones as Hayward Shepherd (The Rail Man).

Joshua Caleb Johnson as Henry 'Onion' Shackleford.

They buried this man's story for a long time.'. John Brown gave his life and two of his sons' lives to the cause of freedom for Black people, and he started the Civil War. Author James McBride was involved in the production and according to him, 'John Brown is a real hero to me and to many Black people who are no longer alive. He challenges why so many of us accept the unacceptable'. According to Hawke, 'If you really study this character, he asks a lot of you philosophically. It is not just the story of Brown but that of those that accompanied him. Brown's raid failed to initiate a slave revolt as he intended, but it was one of the events that started the American Civil War.

The series is told from the point of view of Henry 'Onion' Shackleford ( Joshua Caleb Johnson), a fictional enslaved boy, who is part of John Brown 's ( Ethan Hawke) motley crew of abolitionist soldiers during the time of Bleeding Kansas, eventually participating in the famous 1859 raid on the Federal Armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia). Produced by Jason Blum, through Blumhouse Television, it premiered on October 4, 2020, on Showtime. Focusing on John Brown's attack on American slavery, the series was created and executive produced by Ethan Hawke and Mark Richard. The Good Lord Bird is a 2020 American historical drama miniseries, based on the 2013 novel of the same name by James McBride.

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