Henry Shackleford, a young slave living in the Kansas territory in 1856, has a run-in with 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 passing stakes in the battle over human bondage and witnesses Brown's divinely inspired unhappy agenda: to free the land of slavery by any means necessary.

The Good Lord Bird Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - Meet the Lord
• s01e02 - A Wicked Plot
• s01e03 - Mister Fred
• s01e04 - Smells Like Bear
• s01e05 - Hiving the Bees
• s01e06 - Jesus is Walkin'
• s01e07 - Last Words

The Good Lord Bird Show Summary

Told from the point of view of Henry 'Onion' Shackleford, a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of John Brown's motley family of abolitionist soldiers battling slavery in Kansas, and eventually finding himself in the famous 1859 Army depot raid at Harpers Ferry, an inciting incident of the Civil War. It's a humorous and dramatic tale of Antebellum America and the ever-changing roles of race, religion and gender in American society.