The Good Lord Bird (2020)

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.

Drama Western War & Politics based on novel or book slavery murder dark comedy gang abolitionist early america public executionShowtime

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