Overview
Henry 'Little Onion' Shackleford, a newly freed teenager joins abolitionist John Brown on a holy crusade to end slavery. Onion encounters Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, and he finds himself as a part of the famous 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry.
Cast
- Ethan Hawke as John Brown
- Joshua Caleb Johnson as Henry 'Little Onion' Shackleford
- Hubert Point-Du Jour as Bob
- Beau Knapp as Owen Brown
- Nick Eversman as John Brown Jr.
- Ellar Coltrane as Salmon Brown
- Jack Alcott as Jason Brown
- Mo Brings Plenty as Ottawa Jones