“Everybody got God on their side in a war,” enslaved teenager Little Onion says. “Trouble is, God ain’t tellin’ nobody who he’s for.” Here is the first tra…
“Everybody got God on their side in a war,” enslaved teenager Little Onion says. “Trouble is, God ain’t tellin’ nobody who he’s for.”Showime’s limited series starring Ethan Hawke as John Brown, the antebellum abolitionist who organized an ultimately ill-fated raid on the U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859. It failed to initiate the slave rebellion Brown intended, but it helped to touch off the Civil War.
is told as a memoir of Henry Shackleford aka “Little Onion” , an slave who joins up with Brown during the tense Bleeding Kansas era — a time when the state was a battleground between pro- and anti-slavery forces – and eventually finds himself participating in his famous raid. Along the way, Onion has encounters with history and historical figures including Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman.
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