John and Onion continue their fundraising mission, 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.

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.