The Good Lord Bird (2020)
The Good Lord Bird is a 2020 drama series created by Mark Richard and Ethan Hawke. It stars Ethan Hawke, Joshua Caleb Johnson and Hubert Point-Du Jour.
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.
Where to watch The Good Lord Bird
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Cast
- 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
- Jack Alcott as Jason Brown
- Mo Brings Plenty as Ottawa Jones
- McKinley Belcher III as Broadnax
- Quentin Plair as Shields Green / 'Emperor'
- Daveed Diggs as Frederick Douglass
- Wyatt Russell as James Ewell Brown Stuart
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