Separated from Brown's army, Onion and fellow slave Bob leave the fight in Kansas only to cross paths with pro-slavery "red shirts" who escort them to the slave-trading town of Pikesville, Missouri. 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.

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.