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The Good Lord Bird
2020 · 1 season, 7 episodes · Drama, War & Politics, Western · Showtime · United States · Rated TV-MA (US)
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.
Based on the novel by
James McBride6.9Smart score
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abolitionistbased on novel or bookdark comedyearly americagangmurderpublic executionslavery
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