The Good Lord Bird (2020–2020)

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1. 01Meet the LordS01E01 · 4.4Henry Shackleford, a young slave living in the Kansas territory in 1856, encounters abolitionist John Brown, who mistakes him for a girl and promptly 'frees' him. Believing Henry to be his good luck charm, Brown welcomes him into his ragtag army and nicknames him 'Onion'. Donning a dress for the first time while dodging bullets, Onion quickly awakens to the life or death stakes in the battle over human bondage and witnesses Brown's divinely inspired violent agenda: to free the land of slavery by any means necessary.
2. 02A Wicked PlotS01E02 · 4.3Separated from Brown's army, Onion and fellow slave Bob leave the fight in Kansas, only to cross paths with pro-slavery 'redshirts' who escort them to the slave-trading town of Pikesville, MI. Onion is taken under the wing of Pie, a mixed-race prostitute working out of the local hotel, who instructs him in the ways of the world despite her discovering his dangerous secret. Onion soon finds himself enmeshed in a mounting slave insurrection where he learns the consequences of his own actions.
3. 03Smells Like BearS01E04 · 4.1Brown and Onion continue fundraising, this time heading to Canada on foot. After seeing true freedom for the first time and frustrated with Brown's increasingly irrational behavior, Onion demands freedom from Brown's army. But, when the legendary Harriet Tubman endorses Brown in a room full of new recruits, Onion realizes that he may be more invested in the cause and the 'old man' than he thought.

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Ethan HawkeJohn BrownJoshua Caleb JohnsonHenry 'Little Onion' ShacklefordHubert Point-Du JourBobBeau KnappOwen BrownNick EversmanJohn Brown Jr.Ellar ColtraneSalmon BrownJack AlcottJason BrownMo Brings PlentyOttawa Jones

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